Police & Courts

The Sag Harbor Village Police Department, once again, has two sergeants in the ranks. Robert F. Drake, a full-time village police officer for 14 years, was newly minted at a village board meeting on Tuesday evening.

Local police reports

Two women who were supposed to be taking care of infants while their parents worked instead were force-feeding, pushing, and slamming the children down onto the floor, according to Southampton Town police.

The East Hampton Town Ordinance Enforcement Department served the Surf Lodge in Montauk with citations on Aug. 25 for an illegal change of use and a site plan violation, both stemming from the use of the outdoor deck, which has never received site plan approval, as a pop-up yoga studio, according to Betsy Bambrick, the town’s director of code enforcement.

Three local men charged in separate incidents with workplace-related crimes were arraigned recently in East Hampton Town Justice Court.

Sean P. Ludwick, a former partner in BlackHouse Development, a New York City real estate firm, was charged with drunken driving early Sunday morning.

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Jose M. Chuchuca-Loja, 37, an East Hampton Village resident, was driving a 1995 Toyota Celica, police said, when he struck another car at the intersection of Newtown Lane and Main Street and drove away. A Carlos Taxi driver, who saw what happened, called police and then followed the Toyota to the 23-hour parking lot near Lumber Lane.

East Hampton Village police said the car was not hard to find because it had front-end damage, a broken axle, and smoke coming from the engine. Police said they found Mr. Chuchuca-Loja running away from the car.

At about 4:30 Friday morning, a man who was renting a house for the weekend forced his way into a house elsewhere in Montauk.

A sharp-eyed officer recognized the teenager as the man who was seen four nights before, in a surveillance video outside Plaza Sports on Montauk Main Street, stealing a Nickel skateboard.

A Montauk woman was critically injured Friday morning after being hit by an S.U.V. The victim, Mariana Guanga-Baculima, 32, was flown by helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital, where she was listed in critical but stable condition.

The accident occurred near the west entrance to the hamlet, about a half-hour after sunrise. According to police, Robert Budesa, 64, also of Montauk, was driving a 2005 GMC Yukon east at a fairly low rate of speed.

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Police from across the county were on the lookout for drunken drivers over the weekend, and made five arrests in East Hampton Town.

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Thomas R. Piacentine of East Hampton had his second encounter with police in eight days on Friday morning and this time wound up in jail.

A 17-year-old who was seriously injured early Sunday morning when his car turned over on North Haven faces misdemeanor charges of driving recklessly and without a license.

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Anthony Pisciotto Jr., who has been accused of running an illegal share house at 37 Kettle Hole Road in Montauk, will be arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Monday on 24 charges.

Two motorists who told police they had been drinking at the Gig Shack in Montauk were arrested in separate incidents on East Lake Drive, Montauk, early Sunday morning

Friday, Aug. 28, promises to be a busy day in East Hampton Town Justice court, as East Hampton Village police continued their dogged patrol of village beaches this week.

A tennis player on a scholarship at Auburn University in Alabama is facing a felony charge of criminal mischief after being arrested in Amagansett early Sunday morning.

Amagansett

A Springs man, Brian Pardini, told police Sunday that someone had untied the line to his boat, moored at the Lazy Point launching ramp. It is the third time it has happened this week, he said. No other mooring line was disturbed.

East Hampton

A thief rifled through two unlocked cars shortly before midnight on July 21. Sharon Wolter of Todd Drive told police she noticed the interior light on in her husband’s 2015 Jeep, and saw a man rummaging around.

Amagansett

Alexander Stillman was using his MacBook Air at Jack’s Coffee House on July 14, and when he left he put the laptop, valued at $2,000, in the trunk of his 2007 Mercedes in the Amagansett Square parking lot. He is not sure whether he locked the car, he told police, but when he returned later that day the laptop was gone.

A man entered a Hawks Nest Lane house early Saturday and fell asleep on a bed. When Rod Richardson woke him up, the man said he thought he was at “his friend’s sister’s house.” Mr.

Police leveled two charges of burglary against a local man last week. Kevin T. Powell of East Hampton, 29, was said to have broken into a house on Island Road, East Hampton, on June 13.

East Hampton Town police have accused two Springs men of running a cocaine distribution ring. The two, who were arrested on July 15, face a minimum of 15 years in prison if convicted of the most serious charge.

Juan P. Porras, 48, and Jose Jaime Restrepo-Perez, 41, were arrested following a traffic stop on Route 114. According to police, Mr. Porras, the driver, was in possession of six ounces of cocaine. He and Mr. Restrepo-Perez were charged with second-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Bail was set last Thursday for Mr.

Two unrelated incidents early on Tuesday involving cars that slammed into utility poles sent the drivers first to the hospital and then to East Hampton Town Justice Court, where they were arraigned on charges of driving while intoxicated.

East Hampton Village police have been issuing summonses almost every day this season to beachgoers who let their dogs roam in restricted areas.

Overnight on Saturday, Montauk was the scene of two incidents in which men had to be subdued before they could be arrested.

East Hampton Village police have released information about an accident that occurred on Egypt Beach in the early hours of June 27 and sent a Sagaponack teen to the hospital.

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