Police & Courts

A student from the island of Jamaica who was working at the Hermitage Resort on Napeague this summer was arrested last Thursday for allegedly stealing the identity of a fellow worker and then attempting to transfer almost $4,000 from his PayPal account.

East Hampton Town detectives said Anthony Martin, 24, had committed a “crime of opportunity” after a colleague in the resort’s office left for the day without shutting down his computer. “At around 4 p.m., Randy was getting off from work, so when he got up from his computer, I sat down,” Mr.

Almost all contested cases in East Hampton Town Justice Court are settled by plea bargain, whether they involve a traffic ticket or a serious criminal charge where jail time is in the offing. In the latter case, the process is a delicate one that can go awry, as has happened twice in recent weeks.

Carlos A. Guaman of Springs, 37, was arrested on May 31 and again on Aug. 17 on misdemeanor charges of drunken driving. His blood-alcohol count was high enough in the August incident, according to East Hampton Town police, that the charge was raised to the “aggravated” level.

East Hampton Village

An early-morning dispute on Aug. 25 between a cab driver and his boss became heated when the cabby’s passengers joined in. Police arrived and were told that the employer was “bullying” his driver. The driver denied it, the passengers paid the fare and went their way, and cabby and boss both returned to work.

A bicycle valued at $400 was stolen from the Main Beach bike rack on Aug. 23.

Police cited a Melville man Saturday evening for illegal peddling at Main Beach, during the holiday fireworks.

Despite the holiday weekend, local police corralled a relatively small number of drivers to charge with drunken driving. Tyler S. Sizse, 20, of Montauk, was one of them. He was driving north on Essex Street there early Sunday morning, on what he told police was his way home from the Memory Motel, when he failed to negotiate a turn onto South Fairview Avenue. The 2002 Hyundai he was driving wound up with extensive front-end damage, but Mr. Sizse was able to walk away unhurt.

“I had four beers at the Memory,” he told police.

A local tennis pro was arrested in Sag Harbor early Sunday morning on a drunken-driving charge, his third such in a little more than two years and the second in four months.



Sag Harbor police said they stopped Kiril P. Tcherveniachki, 28, on Bay Street after watching him drive erratically across the North Haven bridge. He failed roadside sobriety tests, police said, and “would not properly take the breath prescreen test” or the Intoxilyzer 9000 test at headquarters.



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A Thule bicycle rack was stolen from a Toyota parked on Leeton Road last week. Maureen McCabe-Hamel told police the rack disappeared in the overnight hours of Aug. 19.



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The parent of a student attending summer classes at East Hampton High School reported her son’s black mountain bicycle with red lettering stolen on July 22. The boy was in class at the time.

Two East Hampton men and a teenager were arraigned last Thursday in East Hampton Town Justice Court in connection with a June incident at Albert’s Landing beach in Amagansett in which, according to East Hampton Town police, a fourth man was assaulted.



Along with two female passengers, the three, Brian K. Midgett Jr. of Springs, 22, JeRae Hayes of New York City, who grew up in Springs, and Mr. Hayes’s 18-year-old brother, were driving toward the beach parking lot at a little before 1 a.m.

Jason Lee, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs charged with raping a 20-year-old Irish student in Wainscott last summer, apparently has just weeks to make the most important decision of his life.



“We are prepared to go to trial,” Kim Shalvey, the assistant district attorney prosecuting the case, said outside the courtroom Friday, after the case was adjourned. She indicated that the process of discovery, in which the two sides exchange information, is largely done. When asked if a deal is possible to allow Mr.

East Hampton

Manuel Guerro’s BMW, parked outside an Amagansett Drive East house, was damaged overnight on Aug. 11, with extensive scratches in the vehicle’s finish.

 

East Hampton Village

A mailbox was damaged, apparently by vandals, and fell off its post on Egypt Close Road last weekend.

An argument between two roommates turned into a brawl late Saturday, during which windows at their apartment on The Circle were damaged.

A New York City woman already charged three times with stalking her ex-husband, his current wife, and their three children, now faces a fourth charge, this time of violating his order of protection.

“I’m an artist and a human rights advocate,” Nirit Resnick, 38, told East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana during her arraignment Sunday morning.

The Suffolk County Police Department’s medevac helicopter can land at the former 555 property in Amagansett, which is now owned by East Hampton Town, on a temporary basis.

Supervisor Larry Cantwell said last week that he authorized the use of the Montauk Highway property for the county’s emergency landings.

Amagansett

On July 17 at about 3:30 p.m., a resident of Old Stone Highway flagged down an officer on patrol and pointed out some “waste dirt with a putrid smell,” which he said had been illegally dumped onto his driveway, about 20 feet from the road. The estimated four to five yards of dirt was blocking access to three houses that share a common driveway. One of the homeowners called Bistrian’s to remove it.

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John J.