With a pistol in his left hand, East Hampton Town police reported last Thursday, 20-year-old Cristian Chumbi of Kingston Avenue, East Hampton, "intentionally placed or attempted to place another person in reasonable fear" while at home around 6 p.m.
Mr. Chumbi was charged with menacing for brandishing the pistol, as well as criminal possession of a weapon for, soon after, holding up a BB gun and an "imitation pistol." The victim's name and further details were withheld by police. Mr. Chumbi appeared the next morning before East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky.
After allegedly shoplifting two bottles of beer, worth $2.10, from Schiavoni's Market in Sag Harbor the week before, Patricia Dominski, 55, of East Hampton was arrested on Nov. 17 and charged with petty larceny for stealing two pairs of Selima Optique sunglasses, the "Amanda" model, together valued at $850. Her arrest came almost a month after an employee of Frances Valentine, a pop-up shop inside Sagtown Coffee, overheard someone say "I can't believe you took those and put them in your pants." A check of inventory showed what was missing and police identified Ms. Dominski with surveillance footage.
Patrick Bentvegna of Bohemia, 48, the owner of Benco Construction, was charged recently with criminal possession of a forged instrument; in this case, a false building permit. Mr. Bentvegna had been hired by Joseph Apprendi of Maydel L.L.C. to build both a second floor deck and reconstruct a ground floor deck at his residence on Dartmouth Road in Sag Harbor. After the village's building inspector put a halt on the project for its lack of a permit, Mr. Apprendi retained Brian J. DeSesa of the Adam Miller Group to represent Maydel before the Village Zoning Board.
In preparing his presentation, Mr. Desesa received related documents from Mr. Bentvegna, who made the mistake of providing him with a building permit. Police reported that Mr. Desesa thought the building inspector must have made a mistake. When the board looked into it, however, the permit turned out to be a previously issued document to Diane and Jeffrey Soukup for a Water Street project on which Mr. Bentvegna was the contractor. He was subsequently called to headquarters and appeared before Justice Lisa R. Rana, who released him on his own recognizance.
Drivers charged last week with aggravated unlicensed operation were Edgar Yugsi-Cepeda of East Hampton, Richard Notar of New York City, Luis Lojamarca of East Hampton, and Chase Wintjen of Sag Harbor, who has been arrested three times this year on the same charge, the most recent of which was last week. All will be arraigned on Dec. 2 in East Hampton Justice Court.
In Sag Harbor, police picked up two more. Tyler Field of East Hampton, on the same charge, was arraigned by Justice Rana on Friday, and Carlos Bedoya of East Hampton, charged with suspended registration, will appear in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court on Dec. 4.
