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.

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

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.

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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.

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