Among recent arrests was one that followed a reported assault aboard a Long Island Rail Road train, headed to Montauk on the morning of July 7.
The train stopped in Bridgehampton, where Southampton Town police and Metropolitan Transportation Authority personnel met it after being notified that a female passenger had been hit in the head with a Dell laptop computer, injuring her and damaging the computer. The victim, a 32-year-old from Brooklyn, was not identified. Her alleged assailant, Shantal April Daniels, 34, of Queens, was arrested and charged with assault and criminal mischief, both felonies. She was taken to police headquarters in Hampton Bays to await arraignment in Southampton Town Justice Court.
Also accused of felony criminal mischief, on July 6, was Jamie Cruz-Ventura, 30, of Sheepfold Lane in Springs. Town police said that three nights earlier, he had damaged a 55-inch television set and a 50-inch Samsung flat-screen TV at a house on Washington Avenue in Springs. He appeared in East Hampton Justice Court on the morning of July 7 before Justice Steven Tekulsky.
A juvenile from Smithtown, whose name was withheld by police because of his age, was arrested at around 5:50 a.m. on July 7 and charged with misdemeanor assault. Police accused him of punching an unnamed victim "in the face, head, and nose with a closed fist causing lacerations, a nasal fracture, substantial pain, swelling, and a concussion, which did require immediate attention." The alleged attack happened on the night of June 29 on Surfside Avenue in Montauk, they said. The youth appeared before Justice Tekulsky later that morning.
Three motorists were charged during the week with aggravated unlicensed driving, a misdemeanor. They were Alejandro Acosta, 29, of Westhampton Beach, Claudio Quituisaca, 30, of Springs, and Patrick Simione, 40, of East Hampton.