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On the Road and on the Water

Thu, 06/03/2021 - 08:33

Joseph Keane of Amagansett, 59, was driving a 2013 Toyota at about 5:30 p.m. on May 22 when, headed west on Amagansett Main Street, he attempted to make a left turn toward Bluff Road and struck a telephone pole. Mr. Keane, who has a previous conviction for driving while intoxicated within the past 10 years, could not perform roadside sobriety tests, reported East Hampton Town police, who charged him with felony D.W.I.

After complaining of pain throughout his body, he was taken by ambulance to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for treatment. The next morning, at his arraignment before Justice Steven Tekulsky, he was additionally charged with aggravated unlicensed driving, a misdemeanor. The same felony D.W.I. charge, plus another count for allegedly having twice the legal blood-alcohol limit, was leveled last week against Manuel Chillogallisuqui, 43, of East Hampton. On Friday at 12:30 p.m., police responded to a call about a man asleep in a running car that was blocking the entrance to Nick and Toni's parking lot on North Main Street. An officer found the man driving a 2013 Toyota out onto that same street, and administered the roadside test, which he reportedly failed. Charged in addition with failing to have a required Interlock device in his car, he was held overnight for a morning appearance in Justice Court before Justice Lisa R. Rana.

Last Thursday at 7:45 p.m., Esteban Valverdesolis was arrested behind the wheel not of a car, but of a 2020 36-foot Sailfish center-console power boat. Town police said the 24-year-old Springs man had come close to striking a floating navigational aid near the entrance to the Harbor Marina. He was charged with two misdemeanors: boating while intoxicated and reckless operation; police said he'd endangered other vessels nearby. He allegedly had twice the legal limit of alcohol in his system. He appeared in court on Tuesday.

Southampton Town police received a call of an erratic driver headed west on Montauk Highway near Town Line Road in Sagaponack on May 23 at 3 p.m. The driver, Rafael Jesus Manuel Quizque of Hampton Bays, 38, was moving along the center of the road when an officer caught up with him, the report said. He was charged with aggravated drunken driving and with three violations: drinking alcohol in a motor vehicle, driving in the center lane, and moving from a lane unsafely. Mr. Quizque was held overnight for a morning arraignment.

Long Days on the Fire Line In Orange County

East Hampton and Amagansett firefighters volunteered to head north last week to help fight a 5,000-acre wildfire in Orange County, N.Y., not once but twice, battling unfamiliar terrain to do so. “They fight fires completely differently than we do when we have a brush fire,” the Amagansett chief said.

Nov 21, 2024

Awards for Good Policing in Handgun Scuffle

“It could have gone worse. We’re lucky that I have officers here that weren’t shot,” said Police Chief Jeff Erickson at Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting. Chief Erickson was recognizing Sgt. Wayne Gauger and Officers John Clark and Robbie Greene for a traffic stop on Aug. 31 that turned into a scuffle and the eventual confiscation of an illegal gun.

Nov 21, 2024

On the Police Logs 11.21.24

A Three Mile Harbor Drive resident reported an online dating scam on the afternoon of Nov. 16. Somehow, said the 80-year-old man, a person on the dating platform had gotten his phone number and demanded $2,000 from him, threatening to tell his family he was using the site if he did not comply. Police told the man to block the number.

Nov 21, 2024

Head-On Collision on Route 27

A 2-year-old was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital following a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on State Route 27 near Upland Road in Montauk.

Nov 21, 2024

 

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