Taxi Company Owner Jailed

A Montauk man is in the county jail in Riverside facing a felony charge of criminal contempt, after allegedly violating an order of protection obtained by his brother.

Richard A. Quimby, 56, was arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court last Thursday, where Justice Steven Tekulsky explained to him that because of his two prior felony convictions, he was not eligible to have bail set at the local level.

Mr. Quimby, the owner of a Montauk taxi company, and his brother, William, share a house in the hamlet with their mother. William’s order of protection, issued in January, allows the two brothers to live in the same house. Police said William called them after Richard, reportedly intoxicated, threatened to beat him up. William Quimby told police that after his brother began shouting at him he pushed a dresser against his bedroom door to keep Richard out. When his brother appeared outside at the bedroom window, he dialed 911.

During Richard Quimby’s arraignment, Adriana Noyola, an assistant district attorney, told the court the D.A.’s office would seek to have him indicted, saying that he had repeatedly violated court orders of protection. Legal Aid Society lawyers have temporarily waived the defendant’s right to be released if not indicted, to allow time to negotiate a plea. He is due back in Justice Court next Thursday.

Guillaume Bruno Emmanuel Marconnet-Chalon is a sommelier, headwaiter, and chef who has worked in leading restaurants in Manhattan and in France. East Hampton Town police say he was also a wanted man for 18 days, until his arrest in Montauk early Monday morning.

Mr. Marconnet-Chalon was originally arrested on July 18 in Montauk on a misdemeanor charge of possession of a small amount of cocaine. He told Justice Tekulsky later that morning that he was visiting here from France for 10 days. Justice Tekulsky set a nominal bail of $100 and put Mr. Marconnet-Chalon on his July 21 criminal calendar to expedite the case. July 21 came and went without Mr. Marconnet-Chalon showing up in court, and Justice Tekulsky issued a warrant for his arrest.

The same officer who had arrested him in July spotted him in downtown Montauk on Monday. Aware of the warrant, he again put Mr. Marconnet-Chalon in handcuffs.

Justice Lisa R. Rana arraigned him later that morning. “What goes on here?” she asked his Legal Aid lawyer, who responded that Mr. Marconnet-Chalon was visiting the country for three weeks. “Why did he tell the court the first time he was here for 10 days?” Justice Rana asked. “There is a big difference between 10 days and three weeks, if, in fact, three weeks is the truth.” She set new bail of $2,000, which Mr. Marconnet-Chalon posted, using a credit card. He is due back in court next Thursday.

A Manhattan woman accused by police of biting an officer during a prolonged altercation outside the Surf Lodge in Montauk around midnight Saturday faces several misdemeanor charges, including resisting arrest. Samantha F. Kane, 34, who told Justice Rana she is a public relations executive, was said by police to have been “screaming obscenities in public while trying to provoke security of the Surf Lodge into a fight.”

When officers moved to arrest her on a charge of disorderly conduct, she allegedly refused to be handcuffed, flailing her arms. With the handcuffs on and her hands behind her back, she lay down on the ground, police said, refusing to walk to the patrol car. When officers picked her up to carry her to the car, they said, she began kicking them with her wedge-heel shoes and bit one officer on his head.

Ms. Kane was additionally charged with harassment. She was released in the morning without bail, but with a future date on Justice Rana’s increasingly busy criminal calendar.