Seen on Surveillance Video

A young New Jerseyan may have thought his legal troubles were behind him when he walked out of East Hampton Town Justice Court last Thursday. Jake M. Federico of Randolph, 19, had just pleaded guilty to driving with ability impaired by alcohol, which is a simple violation, not the more serious misdemeanor drunken-driving charge brought against him in Montauk on July 29.

He was sentenced to 50 hours of community service, to be completed by Oct. 15. East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky warned him that his father, who was in the courtroom, would likely have some stern words for him on the long ride home.

The trip was delayed, however, and the words likely multiplied, by several hours. Waiting for Mr. Federico in the hall was an East Hampton Town police officer, who put him right back in handcuffs, this time charged with petty larceny.

After the July 29 arrest, a sharp-eyed officer recognized the teenager as the man who was seen four nights before, in a surveillance video outside Plaza Sports on Montauk Main Street, stealing a Nickel skateboard. A local teen had left the skateboard outside the store.

“I took it,” Mr. Federico was heard to tell the officer last week as he was being arrested again. “It was just lying there. I didn’t think it belonged to anybody. I still have the skateboard.”

He was taken to town police headquarters to be processed and photographed before being released to his father’s custody. He is due for arraignment on the new charge on Oct. 15.

A man charged early Sunday morning with driving while impaired by drugs told East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana at his arraignment the next morning that he had a prescription for the pills in question. Thomas J. Hoversen of Port Jefferson, 30, who is also charged with possession of a controlled substance, was arrested after failing to stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk on Montauk’s Main Street. Police said he failed sobriety tests before being arrested. “I was smoking marijuana earlier,” he reportedly told the arresting officer.

When police looked through his wallet and searched his car, they reportedly found a small quantity of marijuana and two different types of pills.  Because he was convicted of misdemeanor D.W.I. in 2012, the drug-related charge becomes a felony.

“The meds in the car were prescribed,” he told Justice Rana during his arraignment, explaining that he was in a drug treatment program.

The two controlled-substance charges were based upon four tablets, in their original packets, of Suboxone, and a yellow pill called cyclobenzaprine, which does not appear on the Federal Drug Administration’s controlled-substance list. It is a muscle relaxer. The other drug is on the list. It is prescribed, according to AboutDrugs.com, to help addicts battle dependence on opium-based drugs.

“You need to get an attorney on board, as soon as possible,” Justice Rana warned the defendant. Noting the severity of the charge and his lack of ties to the community, she set bail at $2,000, which was posted by Mr. Hoversen’s mother, who was in the courtroom.

He is due back in court on Sept. 10.

Sag Harbor Village police arrested an Englishman, Barry Dove, on a felony grand larceny charge on Friday. Back in June, police said, Mr. Dove took a credit card belonging to Mary Rivas, at whose residence he was briefly staying, and used it “to re-up his data plan” with AT&T.

Ms. Rivas confronted him about the charge, and he promised not to do it again. However, with the number now on file, AT&T made the same charge four more times. Besides the grand larceny charge for taking the card, Mr. Dove now stands charged with five misdemeanor counts of identity theft.

He was released the next day after posting $500 bail.