Police & Courts

Thomas R. Piacentine of East Hampton had his second encounter with police in eight days on Friday morning and this time wound up in jail.

A 17-year-old who was seriously injured early Sunday morning when his car turned over on North Haven faces misdemeanor charges of driving recklessly and without a license.

What's on the police logs

Anthony Pisciotto Jr., who has been accused of running an illegal share house at 37 Kettle Hole Road in Montauk, will be arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Monday on 24 charges.

Two motorists who told police they had been drinking at the Gig Shack in Montauk were arrested in separate incidents on East Lake Drive, Montauk, early Sunday morning

Friday, Aug. 28, promises to be a busy day in East Hampton Town Justice court, as East Hampton Village police continued their dogged patrol of village beaches this week.

A tennis player on a scholarship at Auburn University in Alabama is facing a felony charge of criminal mischief after being arrested in Amagansett early Sunday morning.

Amagansett

A Springs man, Brian Pardini, told police Sunday that someone had untied the line to his boat, moored at the Lazy Point launching ramp. It is the third time it has happened this week, he said. No other mooring line was disturbed.

East Hampton

A thief rifled through two unlocked cars shortly before midnight on July 21. Sharon Wolter of Todd Drive told police she noticed the interior light on in her husband’s 2015 Jeep, and saw a man rummaging around.

Amagansett

Alexander Stillman was using his MacBook Air at Jack’s Coffee House on July 14, and when he left he put the laptop, valued at $2,000, in the trunk of his 2007 Mercedes in the Amagansett Square parking lot. He is not sure whether he locked the car, he told police, but when he returned later that day the laptop was gone.

A man entered a Hawks Nest Lane house early Saturday and fell asleep on a bed. When Rod Richardson woke him up, the man said he thought he was at “his friend’s sister’s house.” Mr.

Police leveled two charges of burglary against a local man last week. Kevin T. Powell of East Hampton, 29, was said to have broken into a house on Island Road, East Hampton, on June 13.

East Hampton Town police have accused two Springs men of running a cocaine distribution ring. The two, who were arrested on July 15, face a minimum of 15 years in prison if convicted of the most serious charge.

Juan P. Porras, 48, and Jose Jaime Restrepo-Perez, 41, were arrested following a traffic stop on Route 114. According to police, Mr. Porras, the driver, was in possession of six ounces of cocaine. He and Mr. Restrepo-Perez were charged with second-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Bail was set last Thursday for Mr.

Two unrelated incidents early on Tuesday involving cars that slammed into utility poles sent the drivers first to the hospital and then to East Hampton Town Justice Court, where they were arraigned on charges of driving while intoxicated.