“One year of supervision is not sufficient for what she allegedly did,” Justice Steven Tekulsky said during a conference last Thursday with Nicoly Ribeiro De Souza’s attorney.
The woman, alleged by East Hampton Town police to have driven through an art show on the Montauk green last June, was seeking a year of probation on misdemeanor charges of driving while intoxicated and criminal mischief.
The Montauk Artists Association Art Show sustained over $100,000 in damages, resulting in six counts of criminal mischief, after police said Ms. Ribeiro De Souza, 24, of Farmingville, drove her Nissan Rogue into its tents at about 3 a.m. on June 29.
The prosecutor, Keith O’Brien of the county district attorney’s office, told the court that the D.A. is not offering a plea deal, and that Ms. Ribeiro De Souza feces sentencing “as charged.” Each count of criminal mischief is punishable by up to a year in jail. The D.W.I. charge also carries a jail sentence of up to a year.
It was noted during last week’s conference that the State Department of Motor Vehicles declined, on Dec. 4, to allow Ms. Ribeiro De Souza to regain her driving privileges, citing the fact that she had refused to submit to a breath test at the scene.
Justice Tekulsky also told the woman’s lawyer that she will not be eligible for TASC, Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities, a state program that diverts those with substance abuse issues to treatment rather than jail.
The case will continue on April 16.
In the case of Gail Bomze, charged by East Hampton Village police with biting a child at an event on Main Beach last summer, lawyers are working toward a plea agreement, which, Mr. O’Brien said, is pending approval of the child’s family.
Ms. Bomze, 75, was charged with assault in the third degree and endangering the welfare of a child, both misdemeanors, after allegedly biting a 7-year-old girl during a concert at the beach on Aug. 12. Her lawyer, Luigi Belcastro, appeared in Justice Court virtually.
Justice Tekulsky told him he would like the case wrapped up next month, and it will appear on the docket on March 19.
