Police & Courts

East Hampton Town police charged four motorists with drunken driving between last Thursday and Monday, with one facing a felony charge because he had a drunken driving conviction within the last 10 years.

Luis Eduardo Valladares, also known to Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents as Luis Eduardo Valladares Arias, is being held in county jail after being arrested last Thursday on charges of criminal contempt.

Residents of the Montauk Fire District will be asked to select a fire commissioner on Tuesday in voting from 2 to 9 p.m. at the firehouse on Flamingo Avenue.

Police say that Randall Taylor Rivera stole money from the bank account of a deceased Montauk woman. He was arraigned on Tuesday on eight felony charges.

An Eastport man has been charged by the East Hampton Town police with assaulting and attempting to rob a Northwest Woods man on the night of Nov. 7.

A 2004 Mini Cooper parked in front of a Boatheaders Lane North house was vandalized during the day Friday. The vehicle had extensive damage to the front end, back window, and exterior and interior.

The East Hampton Town Police Department, with other law-enforcement officers, conducted a sweep against drunken driving on the night before Thanksgiving and early Thanksgiving morning, which resulted in three arrests.

A Springs man arrested on a misdemeanor menacing charge on Nov. 21 was held overnight and arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court the following day.

Two classified ads for used vehicles that appeared in last week’s East Hampton Star were part of a broad pattern of attempted scams that used eBay gift cards and facsimile eBay notifications in an attempt to defraud would-be buyers.

Two college friends are free after being arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Sunday, although one is headed for residential drug treatment.

Two blue five-gallon jugs of sulfuric acid were found on Nov. 15 on the side of the road near the intersection of Toilsome Lane and Dayton Lane.

The driver of an eastbound 2017 Mercedes-Benz and his passenger were taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Nov. 14 after their car veered sharply off Montauk Highway on the Napeague stretch, crashed into several trees, and rolled over near Shipwreck Lane.

Leaving the scene of an accident is the charge facing a Manhattan man who has a house on South Endicott Place in Montauk.

A Montauk man has been arrested for the second time in less than two months on a felony cocaine possession charge.

Colder weather and rain may be the explanation for a remarkably quiet week on the roads, with just one arrest on a drunken driving charge. Eric M. Peterson, 47, of Springs, was arrested by East Hampton Town police early Sunday after a traffic stop on West Lake Drive in Montauk. Failing roadside sobriety tests, he was taken to headquarters, where a breath test produced a reading of .19 of 1 percent, high enough to raise the misdemeanor charge to the aggravated level. He was released without bail later that morning. 

Another Springs resident arrested over the weekend was Carol K.

Three men have been arraigned on felony charges over the last eight days in connection with a May 15 beating and robbery of a local man.

Four out of five people involved in auto accidents between last Thursday and Saturday were taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital by an East Hampton ambulance.

An officer patrolling the vicinity of Herrick Park on Halloween evening spotted a youth lighting a firecracker. Questioned, the juvenile admitted having four others. They were confiscated, and the youth’s mother was called.

The first frost may be upon us, but police were nevertheless busy on the roads at a level usually seen during the summer.

Several cellphone calls to 911 from near Liars’ Saloon on West Lake Drive in Montauk, which apparently were accidental, led to the arrest of two men on Saturday.

A 45-pound pumpkin and a decorative Halloween skeleton were stolen from the front porch of a Gann Road house sometime between Friday and Sunday afternoons.

East Hampton

The sign on Route 114 guiding drivers to East Hampton Airport was found vandalized with spray paint on Friday. James Brundige, the manager, told police he had seen the sign free of graffiti two days earlier.

A former tenant, apparently trying to retrieve some possessions, damaged the door to one of the apartments at Hampton Mews on Montauk Highway at some time since August. The report was redacted, and no charges were filed.

Douglas DeGroot, the owner of the Buckskill Tennis Club, called police on Oct.

Many deer-related accidents kept the East Hampton Town Police Department busy last week. No injuries, accept perhaps to the deer, resulted. Six of the collisions occurred in Montauk.

Reported in chronological order, the accidents began on Oct. 16. Jeanne M. Shelton of Southampton told police that while heading north on Route 114 near Hilltop Lane in East Hampton at around 4:40 p.m., a deer came out in front of her and she did not have enough time to stop before colliding with it.

In his 25 years in business, John Papas said he only closed the doors to his eponymous cafe once for an extended period — three years ago when he undertook a major renovation. That was until the early hours on Sunday when a fire broke out in the relatively new kitchen at John Papas Cafe.

Kenneth W. Kalbacher, 58, of East Hampton, was arrested on a drunken driving charge Saturday night, just one month after his prior case on driving while intoxicated charges had been plea-bargained down in East Hampton Town Justice Court. The earlier charge, at the misdemeanor level, was reduced to driving with ability impaired by alcohol, a violation, on Sept. 21. East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana highlighted that fact during Mr.

A Brooklyn woman who lost control of the 2016 Mercedes-Benz S.U.V. she was driving southbound on Stephen Hand’s Path near Bull Path — crashing into a tree, then careening, car spinning, into some bushes — was charged with drunken driving on Sunday, a little after noon.

A “suspicious package” was reported to be in some woods near the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center on Gingerbread Lane on Oct. 10. It turned out to be a homeless man, asleep under a tarp. Police told him he had to move off, and he did.

A man who said he was a licensed, armed security guard scheduled to fly to Puerto Rico in the relief effort after Hurricane Maria was arrested on Oct. 6 in Southampton after a warrant was issued by East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana.

A Springs man is being held in county jail after being arrested on a charge of exposing himself in the Stop and Shop supermarket in East Hampton Village on Monday evening.

A Bridgehampton attorney was charged with driving while high on cocaine early on Columbus Day morning.