Didn’t Want Mug Shot Taken

A Springs man, Xavier G. Calle-Mendez, 30, was stopped early Saturday morning on Three Mile Harbor Road in Springs after police said they clocked his 1997 Dodge at 70 miles per hour in a 40-m.p.h. zone. After failing sobriety tests and being told he was to be arrested, police said, he resisted, hanging on to the rear of the car while an officer tried to handcuff him. Two officers, one of whom suffered a minor laceration to his hand, were finally able to subdue him. He was charged with two misdemeanors, resisting arrest and D.W.I.

Mr. Calle-Mendez agreed to take the breath test at headquarters, which allegedly produced a reading of .15. According to police, that was the extent of his cooperation. He refused to be fingerprinted and would not look at the camera to have his mug shot taken, they said.

This did not put him in good stead with Justice Rana, who set bail at $1,000 at his arraignment later that morning and warned him that he had to cooperate. If he were found to have a criminal record once his fingerprints were finally run, she instructed the officer guarding him, “He is not to be released.”

No issues were found, and he is now free on bail.

A 50-year-old Springs man with a record of three drunken-driving arrests was charged with the felony once again on Friday night.

East Hampton Town police stopped James J. Carpenter’s 2001 Toyota on North Main Street in East Hampton after noticing its license plate lights were out, they said, adding that the driver was unsteady on his feet and failed the roadside sobriety test. At headquarters, his breath test reportedly produced a reading of .11.

Citing his prior arrests, Justice Lisa R. Rana told Mr. Carpenter’s attorney, Edward Burke Jr., at his arraignment Saturday morning that “given his history, a hardship license is off the table.” The defendant’s most recent arrest on drunken-driving charges, she said, resulted in a felony conviction in 2010. He also was arrested in 2012 on a weapons possession charge.

Bail was set at $5,000, which was posted.

Following what town police classified as a domestic incident, an East Hampton woman dialed 911 late Sunday night, giving a description of the car that John J. Redden, 47, was driving when he left her house. Police stopped Mr. Redden on Montauk Highway in Wainscott as he was headed back home to Bayport, and said he failed the field sobriety test. A Breathalyzer test at nearby headquarters reportedly produced a reading of .09.

A computer check revealed that Mr. Redden had been charged with drunken driving in 2012, a charge that was reduced last year to the violation level. However, the court imposed a hardship license, which allowed him to drive to and from his job in Brooklyn, but nowhere else. In view of that restriction, police added a felony charge of unlicensed driving to the misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated.

At his scheduled arraignment Monday morning, Justice Rana told his lawyer, Ira Weissman, that she was recusing herself from the case. Mr. Redden has little connection to East Hampton, but the alleged victim, whose name she did not mention, has deep ties here, which may have presented a conflict.

Twenty-four hours later Mr. Redden was taken back to court, where Justice Steven Tekulsky suspended his license, based upon the D.W.I. charge, and ordered him to have no further contact with the woman. The district attorney’s office had requested bail of  $5,000, Justice Tekulsky told Mr. Weissman, who argued that his client had never failed to appear in court in the past. The court set bail at $500, which was posted.

Elver E. Laguna of Springs, 32, was stopped on Three Mile Harbor Road early Sunday morning after police spotted a burned-out taillight on his 2006 Kia. He appeared intoxicated, the officer said, and he was taken back to headquarters, where his breath test reportedly produced a reading of .14. He was released later that morning after posting bail, with a future date on Justice Rana’s criminal calendar.