Two Are Jailed After Trailer Confrontation

Two people with a history of drug use crossed paths last Thursday afternoon in a unit of the Oakview Highway trailer park in East Hampton, and both were sent to the county jail on Saturday, where they remained as of yesterday. Jaclyn Nicole Ewing, 32, and Scott D. Golden, 47, had to be kept in separate rooms during their arraignment Saturday morning to avoid the possibility of a skirmish.

 East Hampton Town police were first called to the trailer park at around 3 p.m. Friday, to investigate a reported assault. There, they found Ms. Ewing sitting by the side of the road. She had returned here a few days earlier from Charlotte, N.C., she told them, and after staying a few days with a friend at the Accabonac Apartments in East Hampton, she went to see Mr. Golden at his trailer.

 She had never met the man before, she told police; her friend had sent her to him as someone with whom she might possibly stay. According to Ms. Ewing, after she entered, Mr. Golden pulled out a “long-barreled black handgun” and pressed it to her head. “If anything goes missing from this house, there’s going to be consequences,” she said he told her.

 That evening, according to her statement to police, Mr. Golden and a man she knew only as Jimmy were smoking crack cocaine in the living room. She said she was not a crack smoker, and waited until they had finished, at about 3 a.m., before going to sleep on a couch. When she woke up about five hours later, Jimmy was gone and Mr. Golden was passed out in the bedroom.

 At about noon Friday, she said, she took a shower. Mr. Golden was still sleeping. As she dried herself off, he allegedly burst into the room and began choking her, demanding that she return cash he said was missing. He punched her in the nose and shoved her to the ground, she stated, and she hit her head against the toilet and the floor.

She told police she had seen Mr. Golden put some cash in a pillowcase the night before. “As soon as he got the money, he backed off, and I got all my belongings and went out to the side of the road.”

 Officers searched the trailer, where they found a black handgun, which Ms. Ewing identified. After photographing her bruises, police drove her to headquarters in Wainscott. The weapon turned out to be a BB gun.

 Mr. Golden also was taken to headquarters, under arrest on three misdemeanor charges for menacing, assault, and choking Ms. Ewing.

 While the woman was at headquarters, police discovered a hypodermic needle in the squad car in which she had been transported. A search of the back seat then turned up two tablets of clonazepam, a controlled substance. Ms. Ewing could not produce a prescription for the drug.

 Police then searched her bags, reportedly finding two Butrans transdermal patches, along with another hypodermic needle. Butrans is an opioid drug administered for chronic, severe pain.

 Ms. Ewing was charged with illegal possession of hypodermic needles and possession of a controlled substance, both misdemeanors. Complaining of pain, she was driven to Southampton Hospital, treated, and released back to police custody.

 In East Hampton Town Justice Court the next morning, she was kept away from Mr. Golden, who was in the court’s holding cell. As she awaited arraignment, she complained she was sick to her stomach and that the handcuffs were too tight. “I’m detoxing off of heroin,” she said. She asked if the handcuffs could be taken off.

“You just told me, once the cuffs are off you’re going to go after him,” an officer responded. He tried to loosen them, but she continued to complain.

 When the proceedings began, Ms. Ewing complained to Justice Lisa R. Rana that she had not been allowed to make a phone call. The prisoners’ phone is located outside the holding cell where Mr. Golden was sitting. While one officer led her into the holding area to make her calls, another took him into a hallway outside the courtroom, then into the court.

 It was now Mr. Golden’s turn to be arraigned. “You have an established criminal history, sir,” Justice Rana said. “Four felony convictions and 13 misdemeanor convictions.” His most recent felony conviction came after he was arrested for burglary in East Hampton; he served three years in state prison after that arrest.

Justice Rana set bail at $10,000. Mr. Golden was led away, a welt on the side of his face clearly visible.

When Ms. Ewing’s arraignment continued, Justice Rana noted that the defendant had been before her about 10 years ago, also on drug-related charges.

 “Are you going to find somebody to post bail for you?” she asked. “Doubtful,” answered Ms. Ewing. She told Justice Rana she had been unable to reach anyone.

Justice Rana then suggested that she ask her parents to post the $500 bail she was setting. “I don’t think they are going to,” Ms. Ewing answered.

Both defendants are scheduled to be brought back to court today.