Early on Saturday morning, East Hampton Town police stopped Donya Davis’s 2018 Jeep on Montauk Highway near Hampton Place, saying he’d been swerving from the shoulder of the highway all the way across the double yellow line.
He appeared intoxicated, they reported: His “speech was slurred, his eyelids droopy, he had sluggish reactions, poor coordination, irregular body and facial movements,” and was unsteady on his feet.
A search of the Jeep turned up “a white rocky substance” in a clear bag in the cupholder, which later field-tested positive for cocaine, police said.
The driver consented to a field sobriety test, a breathalyzer test, and a drug-recognition evaluation, according to the report, and was determined to be “under the influence of a stimulant and a depressant.” He was charged with a class-D felony for criminal possession of a controlled substance — 500 milligrams of cocaine — as well as operating a motor vehicle while impaired, a misdemeanor.
Following his arraignment by Town Justice Steven Tekulsky on Sunday morning, Mr. Donya was released on his own recognizance. He is expected back in Justice Court on June 4.
