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Caught on the Road – Again

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

Mar 16, 2017
On the Police Logs 03.09.17

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.

Mar 9, 2017
Three Weeks Off Probation

“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?”

Mar 9, 2017
Springs Man Charged in Connection With Teen Overdose

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.

Mar 3, 2017
Drinks and Curves Equals Trouble

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.

Mar 2, 2017
On the Police Logs 03.02.17

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.

Mar 2, 2017
Patricide Case

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.

Mr.

Mar 2, 2017
Also on the Logs 02.23.17

Local Police Records

Feb 23, 2017
Hummer in Road Rage

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.

Feb 23, 2017
Police Track D.W.I. Suspect After Tip-off

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.”

Feb 23, 2017
Teen Party Ends in Arrest

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.

Feb 23, 2017
Art Theft in Bridgehampton

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.

Feb 16, 2017
On the Police Logs 02.16.17

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.

Feb 16, 2017
‘Unsafe Speed on Snow And Ice-Covered Roadway’

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

Feb 16, 2017
On the Police Logs 02.09.17

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.

Feb 9, 2017
12 Buds in Three Hours

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.

Feb 2, 2017
Guilty Pleas in Beating, Robbery

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.

Feb 2, 2017
On the Police Logs 02.02.17

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.

Feb 2, 2017
‘He Was Going to Kill Me’

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.

Feb 2, 2017
Bad Week for Springs Drivers

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

Jan 26, 2017
Charged in String of Burglaries

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.

Jan 26, 2017
On the Police Logs 01.26.17

East Hampton

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

Jan 26, 2017
Didn’t Want Mug Shot Taken

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.

Jan 19, 2017
On the Police Logs 01.19.17

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.

Jan 19, 2017
Third Arrest In Dirt Bike Theft

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.

Jan 19, 2017
Arrested For Forging Prescriptions

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.

Jan 12, 2017
On the Police Logs 01.12.17

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.

Jan 12, 2017
On the Police Logs 01.05.17

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.

Jan 5, 2017
Thieves Target Unlocked Cars

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

Jan 5, 2017
A History of Convictions

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.

Dec 29, 2016