Richard Randall of East Hampton, 54, was northbound in a 2022 Cadillac XT5 on Three Mile Harbor Road near Indian Hill Road in the early evening hours of Aug. 24 when the car swerved sharply and hit a tree. Police allegedly found three small plastic bags of a “white rock-like substance,” later determined to be cocaine, in the car. Mr. Randall, who they said was “unresponsive and having difficulty breathing” when they arrived, was charged with driving while ability impaired and criminal possession of a controlled substance, both first-offense misdemeanors. The Cadillac, which was registered to someone else, was impounded.
Just after 3 a.m. on Friday, East Hampton Town police said they clocked an eastbound 2021 Honda driven by Jerome Manning of Mastic, 43, at 55 miles per hour in a 35 m.p.h. zone on Montauk Highway near Bunker Hill Road in Amagansett. Mr. Manning, who they said appeared intoxicated, consented to a blood-alcohol test and was eventually charged with aggravated drunken driving.
On the evening of Aug. 23, John Brown of East Hampton, 43, was headed west on Towhee Trail near Spencer Lane, East Hampton, when, according to the report, he passed a patrol car without dimming his bright lights. After being pulled over, he started to walk toward the patrol car, where, police said, he became “irate, aggressive [and] agitated,” toward the officers. Police then found two open cans of Bud Light in the center console of his 2019 Dodge 150, and charged him with first-offense D.W.I., a misdemeanor.
On Cedar Street near Palma Terrace in East Hampton, near midnight on Aug. 15, police spotted a broken driver’s-side window and mirror on the 2003 Nissan Pathfinder driven by Jinsop R. Parra-Gutama, 30, and pulled him over. The car appeared to have been in a recent accident, they reported. The driver consented to an on-site blood-alcohol test, after which he was charged with misdemeanor drunken driving.