Police & Courts

With just over a week in office, Steven E. Skrynecki outlined three things he will be focused on as the new Southampton Town police chief at a town board meeting on Tuesday afternoon.

East Hampton Town police charged Jo Becker, 50, of Manhattan, with misdemeanor drunken driving Saturday night in Montauk after stopping her 2014 Mercedes-Benz on South Edgemere Street.

East Hampton Town police released a second report this week about an April 8 party attended by under-age drinkers at a house on Oak Lane Extension in Amagansett.

It appears from the heavily redacted report that the 18-year-old who threw the party drove away from it in a 1989 Ford 250 pickup that belonged to someone else. The youth, whose name was withheld by police, apparently because he is eligible for youthful offender status, has now been charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle, a misdemeanor.

Amagansett

A real estate agent called police on April 22 after receiving a series of harassing text messages from a potential client. Martha Gundersen said she had contacted the person, whose name was blacked out in the report, hoping to represent the property this summer, as she had in the past. Police are trying to contact the homeowner.

East Hampton

An 83-year-old East Hampton man told police April 21 that his handicapped parking placard had been stolen from his 2012 Cadillac sometime last month.

East Hampton Town police charged Christopher Paul Gallegos of East Hampton, 20, with second-degree rape and sexual misconduct, felonies, on Friday, in a case involving a then-14-year-old girl. Police said he had carried on a six-month relationship with the teen last year, which continued after she turned 15. The relationship ended when the girl’s parents discovered a selfie she had sent to Mr. Gallegos. The two were said to have met socially in East Hampton.

The first incident, according to the charges, happened last summer when the alleged victim was 14 and Mr.

Steven E. Skrynecki, named by the Southampton Town Board in September to take over as town police chief, was officially sworn in this week.

An appeal to the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court by Catherine A. Cahill, a former East Hampton Town justice, seeking the reversal of a 2014 Supreme Court decision in which she was ordered to pay $1 million to a man who had been her husband’s partner in a land deal, was rejected on April 12

An Oakview Highway trailer park resident came home Friday after being out all day to discover that two propane tanks had been removed from the property.

A Montauk man was arrested Friday night on two misdemeanor charges, petty larceny and possession of stolen property. According to East Hampton Town police, Richard A. Bauer, 38, went on a shoplifting spree at the 7-Eleven in downtown Montauk, stuffing his pants and pockets with various items.

A traffic stop in Sag Harbor on the afternoon of Easter Sunday led to the arrest of a Springs man, Ervin A. Chavez-Felipe, 42, on a felony charge of aggravated drunken driving.

Thomas Gilbert Jr., who has refused to cooperate with doctors seeking to determine his mental stability ever since he was charged in January 2015 with murdering his father in his parents’ Beekman Place, Manhattan, apartment, was given one last chance to do so on Tuesday.

Two men charged with felonies in recent days have been indicted by grand juries.

A Holbrook man was issued a summons for littering on April 10, near the train station on Railroad Avenue. Police said John Zatorski threw a lit cigarette to the ground, stepped on it, and walked away.

Jefferson Davis Eames, a Springs man who has been arrested here six times in the last six months on various misdemeanor charges, was arraigned April 5 in the Riverhead courtroom of State Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho on a felony charge of grand larceny.

Someone let out the air from all four tires of a 2004 Ford van parked in the Oakview Highway trailer park by removing inner pins in the valve stems. Eduardo Peralta discovered the vandalism on the morning of April 3.

East Hampton Town police charged a Sag Harbor woman with felony drunken driving Sunday night after finding her 2014 Ford on the shoulder of Montauk Highway in Amagansett, engine running.

A swan went for a walk on Main Street Friday afternoon. An officer, who escorted it back to Town Pond, noted that “it did not appear to be injured.”

An East Hampton driver faces D.W.I. charges after crashing into a tree off Middle Highway, a few blocks from his residence, last Thursday evening. A neighbor phoned police after the crash, and an officer found Mario D. Cucunuba standing outside his 2007 Ford pickup truck.

Mr. Cucunuba, 36, told police he had “swerved to avoid a person in the road,” but admitted that he had been drinking, according to the report.

Police visited a garage sale on Buckskill Road Saturday morning, telling the woman running it that there had been a complaint. The woman said she had not known that a permit from Village Hall was needed.

A woman has been accused of stealing a blanket from the Sail Inn in Montauk was charged with two misdemeanors.

East Hampton Village

An Amagansett resident told police the afternoon of March 13 that he had left his Apple iPhone6 on the counter at Starbuck’s earlier that day. When he returned, the phone was gone. The manager told him Starbuck’s has a surveillance system, but it could not be immediately accessed. The man told police he began searching for the device using his iPhone tracker app, which showed the phone moving around East Hampton, with stops at delis and restaurants.

The Southampton Town Police Department will have to wait another month before its new police chief officially takes office.

A Springs man with a long history of unlicensed driving is again facing the charge, this time as a felony.

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“Nice to see you again, Mr. McCarron,” East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana said when Michael Luke McCarron was brought before her for arraignment Monday morning. “You just got off probation, what, three weeks ago?”

Amagansett

A neighbor noticed a door ajar at an apparently unoccupied Town Lane residence on Saturday and called police. It appeared that the door had been forced open, with a lower panel damaged as well as the jamb and knob, though nothing inside was disturbed. The owner was notified, as were detectives.

Peggy DiSunno, a Robins Way resident, told police on Sunday that her mailbox had been vandalized the night before.

East Hampton Town police made an arrest Thursday in connection with a teen's overdose during a house party in Springs in late January that outraged the community.

Patrick James McMahon of South­ampton, 25, was using his cellphone Sunday night when his 2000 Ford Mustang hit a sharp curve where Gingerbread Lane becomes Toilsome Lane and left the road, according to an East Hampton Village officer who was at the tricky intersection. Mr. McMahon later failed roadside sobriety tests and was taken to Cedar Street headquarters, where he was charged with aggravated drunken driving after a breath test produced a reported reading of .24, three times the level that defines intoxication.

Mr.

A former resident of the Georgica Association in Wainscott who is awaiting trial on charges of murdering his father in Manhattan was given a stern warning Monday by the judge presiding over his case.

New York State Supreme Court Justice Melissa C. Jackson warned Thomas Gilbert Jr. to begin cooperating with the prosecution’s psychiatrist or risk losing his right to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. She also cautioned him that his refusal to cooperate might do him no good with the jury.

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East Hampton Village

Police were summoned to Village Hall on Feb. 21, where two Labrador retrievers, one black, one brown, were running around outside. Officers were able to capture the black dog, which was collarless, but the brown one disappeared. The black Lab was turned over to an animal control officer. Police searched for the other dog, but it was not to be found.

Montauk

Thomas Slome returned to his South Elroy Drive residence Friday after being away for four days.