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A New York City man already facing a felony charge of drunken driving was arrested in Montauk Harbor Saturday evening after being stopped for speeding in a no-wake zone. Coast Guard officers charged John C. Hulme, 62, with boating while intoxicated and reckless operation of a vessel, both misdemeanors.

Mr. Hulme’s 19-foot-long Stingray, The Expedition, was reportedly clocked at 20 miles per hour through the mouth of the harbor, where the speed limit is 5 m.p.h.

Assault Charges in Albert’s Landing Beating

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.

Tennis Pro Charged Again

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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Will It Be a Deal or a Trial for Jason Lee?

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.