Arrested Again Eight Years Later

Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:20

January 18, 2024

East Hampton Town police arrested a 55-year-old East Hampton man early Sunday morning on drunken-driving charges, which were elevated to the felony level because of a previous D.W.I. conviction within the past 10 years.

Police reported spotting Carlson Jacobs, headed south, crossing the double-yellow lines on Springs-Fireplace Road and Spinner Lane in East Hampton at about 2:39 a.m. “A strong odor of an alcoholic beverage was detected on his breath, his eyes were bloodshot and glassy, and his speech was slurred,” the officer wrote in her report.

Mr. Jacobs, who was said to have performed “poorly” on field sobriety tests, consented to a breath test. This allegedly produced a blood-alcohol reading over the threshold of aggravated D.W.I., which is .18 of 1 percent.

Town Justice David Filer was to have arraigned Mr. Jacobs yesterday. His prior conviction, in 2016, was also in East Hampton Justice Court. He had no attorney on file as of press time this week.

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