Colter Shelly of Whooping Hollow Road in East Hampton was charged last week with second-degree felony assault, whereby someone 10 years younger than the victim allegedly injures someone 65 or over.
East Hampton Town police reported that at home on July 11 at around 8 a.m., Mr. Shelly, 28, punched and kicked another person, whose name was withheld by police, multiple times, leaving cuts, swelling, pain, and difficulty breathing, and prompting immediate transport to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. Mr. Shelly was held for the remainder of the day and night, and arraigned the next morning before Justice Lisa R. Rana in East Hampton Town Justice Court.
Police did a thorough sweep of Montauk party spots last week, leading to five arrests.
On July 11 at 5:15 p.m., Joseph Antonelli, 53, of New York City was charged with employing an unlicensed security guard, a misdemeanor, at the establishment he manages, Bounce Beach Montauk, after the unnamed guard was unable to produce valid identification. A second misdemeanor, for failure to correctly post an Alcohol Beverage Control sign, was filed as well. Police noted that there are three separate bars inside Bounce.
Also at Bounce, police charged two men with serving alcohol to a minor, a misdemeanor. Within 15 minutes of each other, police said, Gokhan Resber, 30, of St. George, Utah, and Mitchell Davis, 33, of Northport each sold a 12-ounce can of Corona Light beer to an undercover 20-year-old, who showed no identification.
The unnamed agent, who will be 21 next month, led police to their next arrest, at around 4:15 p.m. at the Surf Lodge. Thea Dukas, 33, of Montauk was charged this time.
All four bartenders, charged with unlawful dealing with a minor, will be arraigned in Justice Court on July 28. A fifth arrest was unfounded.
There were three arrests on town roads during the week. On Saturday afternoon, C. Tittmann, 45, of Huntington was booked for aggravated unlicensed driving. Mark Meller of Livingston, N.J., was charged with the same offense last Thursday, the day before his 62nd birthday. Finally, Henry Shamamian, 60, of Greenwich Village was ticketed for driving with a suspended registration. All three are to appear in court on July 28.
In East Hampton Village, a driver who was charged in June with lacking a license, suspended registration, and having neither inspection nor insurance, was again charged with the two misdemeanors and both violations on July 13, at 6:30 a.m.
Police stopped a blue 2002 Lexus driven by Nina Schafer, 56, of Oakview Highway, East Hampton, on Toilsome Lane near Wireless Road. The car had neither front nor rear license plates, they said. She also faces two speeding charges, one for a 44 mile-per-hour right turn onto Meadow Way in a 25 m.p.h. zone, the other for going 40 m.p.h. on Mill Hill Lane, where the limit is 20. The Lexus was impounded by Hammer Towing; she will appear in court on July 28.
Bryan Tapia Garzon, 32, of Springs was flagged down on Railroad Avenue, village police said, for texting while driving and wound up facing added charges of aggravated unlicensed driving and driving without an interlock device, required for those who have been convicted of drunken driving. Mr. Garzon appeared in court yesterday.
