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Two Are Convicted of D.W.I.

Thu, 02/16/2023 - 10:49

In East Hampton Town Justice Court, two drunken-driving cases, one of them dating back to December of 2019, were recently resolved.

The 2019 case was resolved on Feb. 1 with a guilty plea by Jason Glasstein, 41, formerly of East Hampton and now of New Port Richey, Fla., to a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated. He was originally arrested on Dec. 1, 2019, following a confrontation on Lincoln Avenue in Springs that also resulted in charges of leaving the scene of an accident and second-degree harassment, both violations, and reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor.

Justice Steven Tekulsky revoked Mr. Glasstein’s license for six months; court records indicate that the paperwork has been forwarded to the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles. Justice Tekulsky fined him $1,400 in all, which Mr. Glasstein has 90 days to pay, and sentenced him to probation for two years, during which Mr. Glasstein will be required to have an ignition interlock device in his vehicle. The other charges were dismissed.

Before Justice Lisa R. Rana on Feb. 8, Edwin X. Llapapintado of Riverhead, 29, pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge of D.W.I. stemming from an Aug. 8 incident on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road in Springs. Police said they found him asleep in his car holding a half-empty bottle of Corona with his foot on the brake and the engine running.

Justice Rana sentenced him to a 90-day license suspension and $760 in fines and fees. Mr. Llapapintado also pleaded guilty to unlicensed driving, but two additional violations, aggravated unlicensed driving and consumption of alcohol in a motor vehicle, were dismissed.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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