Police & Courts

Southampton Town police have arrested a former president of the Sag Harbor School Board on a misdemeanor charge of allowing teens to drink alcohol at her North Haven house.

Local Police Records

Alleged road rage at the intersection of Newtown and Cooper Lanes in East Hampton Village Tuesday evening resulted in a crash and an arrest, according to village police, who charged Braulio Camilo Padillo-Romero, a 28-year-old East Hampton resident, with criminal mischief as a D felony and with two misdemeanors, reckless endangerment and reckless driving, as well as a violation for an allegedly illegal lane change.

A call last Thursday afternoon from a Town Lane house had East Hampton Village officers on the lookout for a man driving a 1997 Lincoln. Their report of the incident states that they wanted to “check his well-being.”

East Hampton Town police charged a Springs man with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated early Saturday morning.

Southampton Town detectives are investigating the disappearance of a dozen or more artworks from the studio of a Bridgehampton artist, Elaine Marinoff, who called police to her Ocean Road residence in early January to report the theft.

Montauk

Police are investigating two reports of vandalism in Montauk earlier this month. A South Fox Street woman, Magdalena Sanchez, told police Saturday that during the night of Feb. 2 her mailbox was ripped out of the ground and thrown across the street, and that obscenities appeared on her property. Another woman, Aida Sanchez of South Emerson Avenue, told police she had filled the gas tank on her Chevrolet Suburban on Feb. 6 or 7, but found the needle on empty when she went to drive the car on Friday.

East Hampton

Police warned two East Hampton High School girls last week to stop disparaging another girl on Facebook or face criminal charges of harassment. The two agreed to stop. The victim, who lives in Springs, told police she did not want to press charges at this time, but would do so if there were any more posts.

 

East Hampton Village

Police were called to the parking lot of Stop and Shop last Thursday afternoon, where a dog was spotted inside a 2014 Jeep that had its engine running.

An alleged prostitute who solicited business online and a man who accompanied her to Montauk in August pleaded guilty to felony charges on Jan. 11 in connection with the beating and robbery of a would-be client.

A Deer Park man recently paroled from a state prison has spent the past few days in county jail following a domestic incident at the Royal Atlantic Hotel in Montauk.

East Hampton

A Montauk woman, dining at Simply Sublime, a food shop on Springs-Fireplace Road, was targeted there by an angry ex-boyfriend on the afternoon of Jan. 21. Macarena Ramos told police she had met him there to return an iPod he had given her some time ago. He arrived at the shop with another man, who, she said, dumped a noxious liquid on her. The men then drove away.

A Springs man was charged with driving while intoxicated Sunday afternoon after his 1998 Ford pickup crashed into a tree on Abraham’s Path in Amagansett, near Thomas Avenue.

Jose T. Galos, 21, reportedly told East Hampton Town police he “was trying to make the turn and hit the tree.” He had significant swelling near his left eye, and was flown to Stony Brook University Hospital, a number-one trauma center, as a precaution.

The driver of a Jeep that was behind the pickup told police Mr. Galos had gotten out after the crash and was stumbling in the road.

A career criminal already behind bars has now been charged with six more felony counts after an investigation by Southampton Town detectives into a string of burglaries between March and May.

Richard Ambrose, 40, of Shirley was taken to Southampton Town Justice Court from the county jail in Riverside on Jan. 12 and arraigned on the new charges.

Southampton Village police had arrested him on Sept. 16 on a burglary charge, and a grand jury indicted him four days later. On Sept. 26, he was arraigned in county court, with New York State Justice John B.

East Hampton

A Montauk man called police on Jan. 15 after taking his car to the Citgo service center on North Main Street.

Unable to make bail of $10,000, a Springs man charged with felony drunken driving has been in the county jail since Saturday.

East Hampton Village

Police went to a Huntting Lane house to check on the well-being of a resident after receiving a report of what appeared to be blood in the snow near the front porch. The man, whose name was redacted from the incident report, is known to the police because he has chased strangers down the street in the past. He told an officer that the stains in the snow were beet juice he had disposed of.

A call reporting a seal in distress took police to Main Beach late Saturday afternoon.

A 16-year-old East Hampton High School student turned himself in this week after East Hampton Town detectives left a note at his Springs residence.

After failing sobriety tests and being told he was to be arrested, police said, he resisted, hanging on to the rear of the car while an officer tried to handcuff him.

A Manhattan woman who works as a medical assistant forged a prescription for Klonopin that was filled at White’s Pharmacy in East Hampton in May, according to the charge brought against her in East Hampton Town Justice court Tuesday afternoon.

Donna Lemons, 57, was arrested after a detective who is with the Southampton Town Police and is a member of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s East End Drug Task Force traced the prescription back to her.

East Hampton

 Someone drove onto the grounds of the East Hampton Farm Museum, at the corner of North Main and Cedar Streets, on Jan. 4, leaving ruts and partially pushing the cover of a septic system out of place. The East Hampton Town Parks Department is to repair the damage.

It was the day after Christmas when Walter Guerrero, who lives at the Oakview Highway trailer park, noticed the content of his Apple iPhone had been deleted. He told police he was able to download the data from the cloud.

Nighttime thieves struck unlocked cars in Sag Harbor again last week, continuing a series of incidents that began in mid-December.

Amagansett

Two vehicles parked in the driveway of a Cross Highway house were keyed over a four-day period recently. Jonathan Alzate told police deep scratches had been made by a key or nail on his 2011 Toyota Tacoma overnight Dec. 18 and that his 2004 Dodge truck was similarly struck overnight Dec. 21.

An East Hampton man with a history of drug and alcohol convictions may face significant jail time after being charged with felony drunken driving on Saturday morning.

A Christmas-morning crash on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road in Springs resulted in a trip to Southampton Hospital for the driver, who was charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.

A domestic dispute on the day after Christmas ended in the arrest of a Sag Harbor man, Nicholas V. Depetris.

East Hampton Village

A Manhattan woman who owns a house on Georgica Road left Spa 27 on Montauk Highway after having been “pampered by the estheticians and massage therapists” on Dec. 20, a police report said. She forgot her multicolored Furla handbag, however, and back at the salon saw that it was gone from where she had left it. After a search, she and the manager found it in a garbage can in the women’s bathroom, minus $400 in cash. The manager told police that the spa had had many customers in and out that evening.

On Dec.

In light of a previous conviction for driving while intoxicated, an East Hampton man arrested Sunday morning for the same offense was charged with felony D.W.I.

East Hampton Town police said Segundo P. Quezada, 51, driving a 2004 Nissan X-Terra, was under the influence as he headed home on Springs-Fireplace Road around 1:15 a.m. An officer reportedly saw the car swerving and failing to signal as it turned onto West Drive, where Mr. Quezada lives. He performed poorly on field sobriety tests, the officer said.

The driver, who was convicted of D.W.I.

Amagansett

Electric lines to a house on Cranberry Hole Road, coming in from a street pole to the junction box, were cut sometime between Dec. 9 and Dec. 12, when a property manager reported the damage. Repairs were estimated at $4,000.

East Hampton

A mailbox, with its post, was thrown into woods just west of Sharon M. Gajajiva’s Oakview Highway residence on the night of Dec. 9. A police officer was able to put the mailbox, which was undamaged, back in place.

The owner of another Oakview Highway mailbox was not as lucky.

A building contractor was arrested on theft charges for allegedly stealing tools from Riverhead Building Supply on consecutive days last week.

East Hampton 

Spyridon Dimopoulous reported receiving a call on the afternoon of Dec. 6 from an unknown number, stating his oil service was to be disconnected. He was instructed to call the PSEG Storm Center at a number that turned out not to be connected to the utility. When he called, he was told he would have to pay $1,500. He offered some information but then realized it was a scam and called his bank immediately. Nothing had been compromised.