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Arrest in Truck Theft Leads to String of Charges

Thu, 06/24/2021 - 09:07

An East Quogue man who allegedly stole a pickup truck in Riverhead on June 16 faces a grand total of nine charges after police stopped the white Ford F-150 truck on Industrial Road in Wainscott at about 5:30 p.m. that day.

Viktor Senchyshyn, 61, was charged with four felonies: criminal possession of stolen property, burglary, illegal entry with intent to commit a crime, and two counts of criminal mischief for causing over $250 damage to another person's property. 

East Hampton Town detectives believe the man is also responsible for other misdeeds over the past month. He is further accused of breaking through "closed fencing" sometime between 8 a.m. on June 2 and noon on June 3 at Share the Harvest Farm on Long Lane in East Hampton. Once in the restricted employee-only area, Mr. Senchyshyn allegedly "pried open a Traulsen 3-door, 4x8 refrigerator unit, damaging the center and right doors, plus the door latch."

 He was also charged with criminal trespassing and petty larceny, misdemeanors. Police said he took "10 frozen burrata raviolis, 8 vegan burgers, 13 cheese puff cocktails, one tomato pizza, one mushroom pizza, and three pesto pizzas" from the refrigerator.

Across Long Lane at the Iacono Farm, police accused Mr. Senchyshyn of misdemeanor petty larceny with the intent to take four "Production Red Layer Chicken Hens" from an unlocked chicken coop in the small hours of June 2. Another count of petty larceny cited the theft of two L.L. Bean chair cushions from outside a Long Lane house, sometime between 3:45 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. on June 3. Police had said last week that they were investigating that incident "in conjunction with others."

The final charges, felony criminal mischief and misdemeanor criminal trespassing, involved a second Long Lane residence, a few doors down from the first. Sometime between June 1 at 4 p.m. and June 2 at 3:30 p.m., police said, Mr. Senchyshyn, “with his shoulder, pushed in the rear entry door” to break in to the house, causing over $250 in damages to the door frame and door lock.

He was arraigned in East Hampton Justice Court on June 7 by Justice Lisa R. Rana, who released him on his own recognizance. Not long after, however, on the evening of June 12, he was accused of misdemeanor larceny: Police allegedly caught him removing a license plate from a white Mercedes-Benz parked in a Wainscott Main Street driveway. He was to be arraigned Thursday morning on that charge.

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