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Charges Handed Down

Thu, 09/29/2022 - 10:14

An 18-year-old East Hampton man was arrested on the night of Sept. 21 and charged with two counts of petty larceny after police accused him of stealing $780 from the Inter Deli, 460 Pantigo Road, and another $144 from a 2012 Black Acura parked there. The charge is a misdemeanor. He was not identified because of his age.

On the afternoon of Sept. 19, Matthew Kopoulos of East Hampton, 30, was charged with criminal possession of fentanyl, a misdemeanor, after officers allegedly discovered a tinfoil packet of a white powdery substance in his car ashtray. Mr. Kopoulos, who was pulled over on Wainscott Northwest Road near Montauk Highway for failing to wear a seat belt and for non-operational brake lights, consented back at headquarters to a blood-alcohol test, which, according to police, was “inconsistent with the degree of impairment exhibited by the defendant at the time of vehicle operation”; conclusive results are pending. The D.W.I. charge meanwhile was raised to a felony after Mr. Kopoulos was found to have a prior drunken-driving conviction on his record within 10 years of this arrest.

Franklin Campoverde-Pauta of Montauk, 34, was charged on Sept. 19 with third-degree sexual abuse and two counts of acting in a manner injurious to a child under the age of 17, both misdemeanors. Police said he had “subjected another person to sexual contact without the latter’s consent” at a Montauk Highway address in Water Mill between Aug. 1 and Sept. 3. His alleged victim is a female whom he “intentionally touched,” according to police.

On the Police Logs 07.17.25

A man “with white hair and a blue jacket” took another patron’s phone during a movie at the Regal Cinema and said he would not return it. He later told police he’d taken the phone to “make a stand” because the owner was talking loudly on it during the movie.

Jul 17, 2025

Found With Coke in Cars

Two drivers were charged last week in unrelated cases with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance after East Hampton Town police found bags containing a “white rock-like substance” in their vehicles.

Jul 17, 2025

Overturned by the Overlook

A Brooklyn man was arraigned recently on multiple misdemeanor charges related to a May 25 accident that injured four passengers in his Mercedes S.U.V., according to police.

Jul 17, 2025

Combs Verdict on Trafficking Is Examined

To Cate Carbonaro, executive director of the East Hampton advocacy organization the Retreat, who has worked extensively with victims of sex and labor trafficking as a public defender, the split verdict in the federal criminal trial of Sean (Diddy) Combs presents a “stark reminder of how far we still have to go” to educate both the courts and the public about what the “often misunderstood” charge of sex trafficking really means.

Jul 10, 2025

 

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