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On the Police Logs 02.05.15



East Hampton Village

Police were called to a Further Lane house on the morning of Jan. 26. “A deer was stuck in the fence,” the police report said. Two officers were able to free the frightened animal, “who was not injured and ran off.”

There were several police reports related to the general confusion after the snowstorm last week. A CVS employee called police on Jan. 28, complaining about a car that had been parked in the lot off Gay Lane for three days and was hampering snow-removal efforts.

Feb 5, 2015
Two Misdemeanor Charges



A Wyandanch man who was stopped for allegedly speeding down Newtown Lane in East Hampton Village on Saturday evening ended up with the driver under arrest on a misdemeanor charge of drug possession. Given that motorists were being kept off the roads because of the weather this week, there were few  arrests, but one man was charged with stealing a plastic snow shovel.

Kadeem W. Outlaw, 25, was arraigned before East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky Sunday morning.

Feb 5, 2015
Unlicensed Drivers Charged



Two Springs men, neither of them a licensed driver according to East Hampton Town police, were arraigned Sunday morning on several charges, including driving while intoxicated.

Luis A. Yamba-Tenezaca, 22, was additionally charged with leaving the scene of an accident.

Feb 5, 2015
No Hardship License After a D.W.I. Arrest

A Springs man who drives commercial vehicles for a living is facing a possible lifetime revocation of his driving privileges after being arrested for the fifth time on a drunken driving charge.

James D. Beckwith, 53, was arrested by East Hampton Town Police on a misdemeanor charge of aggravated driving while intoxicated late Sunday night.

Jan 29, 2015
On the Police Logs 01.29.15

Amagansett

A surveyor’s metal detector was stolen from a vehicle parked at a job site on Shore Road on Jan. 21. Joseph Welsh told police the missing DML 2000, which is used to find underground pipes and markers, was worth about $500.

East Hampton

The driver’s-side window of a 2002 Chevrolet Silverado parked outside the Bistrian gravel pit was smashed last week.

Jan 29, 2015
Drug Possession Charged

A resident of Accabonac Road, East Hampton, was arrested last Thursday afternoon on charges of drug possession.

East Hampton Village Police charged Chase Thompson Wintjen, 21, with three misdemeanors. Mr. Wintjen was approaching the end of a three-year probation sentence when he was arrested, according to statements he made during his arraignment Friday morning in East Hampton Town Justice Court.

Jan 22, 2015
Prior Convictions for D.W.I.

A Greenport man picked up on Georgica Road in East Hampton Village Friday night had abandoned his car after crashing twice, according to police, who arrested him on a drunken-driving charge.

An officer on patrol on Ocean Avenue spotted a tree branch and numerous car parts in the road. It appeared that a car had driven off the road, striking trees and shrubs. With two other officers joining the search, Cleofe Vazquez was soon spotted.

Jan 22, 2015
A Fisherman Is Charged



A Montauk fisherman was back in handcuffs Tuesday morning, arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court for the second time in less than a month.

Donald J. Dalbora, 44, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated the night before in Montauk. Last month, he was picked up on a warrant after repeatedly failing to answer an earlier drunken-driving charge, that one stemming from a September 2013 arrest.

On both occasions, according to East Hampton Town police, he refused to take the Breathalyzer test at headquarters.

Jan 15, 2015
On the Police Logs 01.15.15



Amagansett

A vandal or vandals targeted two skate ramps at the park on Abraham’s Path during the overnight hours of Jan. 2. Spray paint was used to write nonsensical references to heroin. There have been a couple of similar attacks across the town recently in which slogans referencing heroin were spray-painted on Recreation Department property.

East Hampton

A GoPro Hero4 video camera that was a Christmas gift for a Sag Harbor girl disappeared from where she had left it at the Buckskill Winter Club rink on Jan. 2.

Jan 15, 2015
Revote of a One-Vote Win



Fire commissioner votes, held in the midst of the holiday season on quiet Tuesday evenings in December, are usually uneventful elections with low voter turnout, even when there is the occasional competitive race. On Dec.

Jan 15, 2015
New Year’s Arrest in Amagansett



A Springs man who was arrested early New Year’s morning on an aggravated charge of driving while intoxicated was taken at some point afterward to Southampton Hospital with unspecified injuries and not arraigned until the next day.

East Hampton Town police said they spotted Juan P. Farez, 29, making an illegal turn that morning from the parking lot behind Amagansett Main Street and then driving down the center safety lane. “Yes, I have been drinking, and I shouldn’t have been driving,” he reportedly told them.

Police said he failed roadside sobriety tests.

Jan 8, 2015
On the Police Logs 01.08.15



East Hampton Village

The president of the trustees of the East Hampton Methodist Church told police on the morning of Dec. 31 that the church’s oil company had delivered and installed a new furnace without permission. Other trustees, however, told police that they had authorized the installation and had left several unanswered messages to that effect for the president.

A New York woman receiving a facial at Naturopathica at 74 Montauk Highway on Dec. 31 left two necklaces in a silver bowl.

Jan 8, 2015
Sisters Targeted on Facebook



A New Year’s Day incident stemming from a lovers’ triangle led on Monday to the arrest of an East Hampton man.

Darius Z. Petty, 24, was in the county jail in Riverside as of yesterday, unable to post the $5,000 bail set by East Hampton Town Justice Lisa Rana during his arraignment on Tuesday. He is charged with felony criminal mischief as well as menacing, a misdemeanor.

The alleged victim, Katrina M. Cafiso, was said by East Hampton Town police to be an ex-girlfriend of Mr. Petty’s brother, Aaron Petty.

Jan 8, 2015
A Fight on Christmas Night

A Christmas night dispute in Springs ended with a Montauk man under arrest on multiple charges, including aggravated drunken driving, reckless endangerment, and assault, all misdemeanors, as well as a felony charge of unlicensed driving.

The assault, East Hampton Town police said, occurred on School Street. According to police, Luis Daniel Vargas, 29, was leaving a party on Gardiner Avenue with his girlfriend, Luz Tangarife, when the two began to argue over who would drive her 2014 Toyota Tundra back to their Montauk apartment. Ms. Tangarife told police that Mr.

Dec 31, 2014
On the Police Logs 01.01.15



East Hampton

A mailbox outside an Atlantic Street house was vandalized between Dec. 20 and Dec. 23. Vincent Aversano told police the black metal box was worth about $40.

East Hampton Village

An emergency call on Dec. 23 from a 17-year-old sent police to the men’s room at the Reutershan parking lot, where he told them that the father of his girlfriend had called and demanded that he remove a photo of himself with the girl from Facebook. The teenager refused, and about 10 minutes later the father confronted him.

Dec 31, 2014
‘Lock Me Up,’ He Said



A lifetime resident of East Hampton is greeting the New Year in county jail after pleading guilty on Monday to harassment, a violation. Lewis C. Seitz, 58, was sentenced to 15 days in jail.

Mr. Seitz was arrested Friday night after a dispute with Alexander Colonna, the owner of the Springs house in which he lived. Mr. Seitz had shoved Mr. Colonna, according to the police.

Where Mr. Seitz will live next became an issue the next morning during his arraignment in East Hampton Town Justice Court. Mr.

Dec 31, 2014
In Jail for the Holidays

Last Thursday was the final day in 2014 for criminal cases to be adjudicated in East Hampton Town Justice Court. Several men learned that day that they would be spending the holidays, as well as the next few months, in county jail after being sentenced for various misdemeanor crimes.

Michael J. Perrone, 48, who is originally from Oakdale but has split much of his time this year between Montauk and the county jail, was sentenced to two six-month terms, to run concurrently. It was the second time this year that he had been sentenced to jail by East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R.

Dec 24, 2014
Judge Asks, ‘Does Your Mother Know?’

An East Hampton man who recently moved to Springs was arrested early Monday morning on a felony drunken-driving charge by the East Hampton Village police. Jesse Scott Lien, 33, reportedly told police he had had “a couple of beers” when he was pulled over on Montauk Highway near Green Hollow Road. Police said he was driving on the shoulder of the road at the time.

Failing roadside sobriety tests, he was arrested on the drunken-driving charge, as well as several other charges, and was taken to police headquarters.

Dec 24, 2014
On the Police Logs 12.25.14

East Hampton

The men’s room by the cafeteria at East Hampton High School on Long Lane was the target of a vandal last Thursday. Adam Fine, the school’s principal, told police that at about noon someone slammed “a blunt instrument” at the toilet in the handicapped-access stall, damaging its right side.

East Hampton Village

The swimming pool at a house on Sherrill Road was being drained into the street by a Wainscott pool company a little after noon on Dec. 16.

Dec 24, 2014
Out-of-Court Deal Irks Town Judge Rana

An attorney from Shoreham received some stern words from East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana before she agreed to a plea bargain for his client that had been worked out with the district attorney’s office without consulting her first.

Chad A. Leat, 58, was arrested on a drunken-driving charge by East Hampton Village police on Nov. 15. His attorney, Austin M. Manghan III, had negotiated for Mr.

Dec 24, 2014
Springs Man in Speonk Brawl

A Springs man already facing a felony burglary charge in East Hampton Town Justice Court may now be facing Christmas in jail after having been arrested again early Saturday morning.

Southampton Town police said Monday that Lucas M. Ward, 21, was a participant in a fight at a house party on Montauk Highway in Speonk. According to Sgt. John Boden, Mr. Ward and a friend, Joshua R. Kulp, 21, of Speonk, were upset that they had been asked to leave the party. Mr. Kulp allegedly began throwing lawn furniture and bottles at a 2008 Mercedes-Benz parked outside, and then left with Mr.

Dec 24, 2014
Fire District Revote Set in Bridgehampton



A revote in the Bridgehampton Fire District’s commissioner race has been scheduled for next month after the district found that two people who were no longer residents of the district had cast ballots.

With 175 votes on paper ballots there was a tie between Philip Cammann and John O’Brien, but once write-in votes were counted, the vote went in Mr. O’Brien’s favor. However, because there was no legal certainty as to whom the two nondistrict residents voted for and such a small margin separated the candidates, a revote will be held.

“We chose Jan.

Dec 18, 2014
In Court: Stolen Pots, Felony Pot Bust

A Springs man accused of stealing decorative cast-iron lawn pots from a neighbor was arraigned Sunday morning in East Hampton Town Justice Court on charges of petty larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

Joseph A. Hawkins, 23, told East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana that one of his jobs was scalloping.

“How much do you make scalloping?” she asked. “I forget,” said Mr. Hawkins. She continued to question him and he continued to give vague answers.

“Don’t you think you might have to do something to make a living?” Justice Rana finally asked.

Dec 18, 2014
On the Logs: 12.18.2014

East Hampton Village

A woman from Orchard Lake, Mich., who made a series of purchases totaling $166,000 earlier this year from Lord and Guy, a Main Street auction house dealing in antiques and fine art, called police on Dec. 10, complaining that she had returned several items to the store a few months ago and had not yet received her money back. The items returned included a ring, a Rolex watch, and a diamond and sapphire gold necklace, altogether valued at $48,000.

Dec 18, 2014
Utility Poles Were the Victims in Alleged D.W.I.s

Two motorists collided last weekend with utility poles on the two main arteries in and out of Sag Harbor. One is facing charges of driving while intoxicated.

The first crash, on Hampton Street at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday, involved a 2013 Volkswagen Beetle driven by Julia M. Hentschel, 18, of Wainscott. Sag Harbor Village police said she was standing by the car, whose airbag had deployed, when they arrived.

Dec 18, 2014
Two Seriously Injured in Off-Road Montauk Collision

Two men suffered serious injuries when the all-terrain vehicles they were riding crashed into each other in the woods behind the Montauk recycling center on Sunday afternoon.

Dec 14, 2014
Aftermath of an Accident



A Springs man convicted of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in October after a three-day jury trial was sentenced last Thursday.

William Cuthbert, who turned 57 yesterday, was ordered to pay East Hampton Town Justice Court $1,575 in fines and fees. As a condition for avoiding probation, he was required to complete an anger-management course over the next year; failure to do so would result in his being resentenced. In addition, he must stay out of trouble with the law over the same time period.

As he stood before Justice Steven Tekulsky, Mr.

Dec 11, 2014
D.W.I. Arrest in Montauk



There was just one arrest this past cold and rainy week on charges of driving while intoxicated, that of an Amagansett man, Robert J. Badkin, 51. Mr. Badkin was pulled over on Edgemere Street in Montauk, near where his business is located, last Thursday evening.

East Hampton Town police said the motorist failed roadside sobriety tests and was taken back to headquarters in Wainscott, where his breath test was reportedly recorded as .12 of 1 percent. A reading of .08 or higher triggers the D.W.I. charge.

Mr.

Dec 11, 2014
Graffiti Found on Stop Signs



As demonstrations swept across America in the hours after the decision by a Staten Island grand jury last week not to indict a New York City police officer in connection with the death of a man he had placed in a choke hold on July 17, one or more individuals took to the streets of East Hampton Town and Village, apparently expressing anger with the decision.

East Hampton Village police reported on Monday that in the overnight hours following the Dec.

Dec 11, 2014
Guilty Plea in a Fatality



A Hampton Bays woman charged with drunken driving after her passenger died in an early morning single-car crash in Southampton Village on April 19 pleaded guilty on Nov. 21 to vehicular manslaughter, a felony.

Allison J. Rydberg, 26, admitted that her blood-alcohol level was well over twice the legal limit at the time of the accident, and that she had been driving at an excessive speed.

Tad Scharfenberg, her attorney, said last week that she would be sentenced on Feb.

Dec 11, 2014