Police & Courts

Jefferson Davis Eames, a Springs man who has been arrested here six times in the last six months on various misdemeanor charges, was arraigned April 5 in the Riverhead courtroom of State Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho on a felony charge of grand larceny.

Someone let out the air from all four tires of a 2004 Ford van parked in the Oakview Highway trailer park by removing inner pins in the valve stems. Eduardo Peralta discovered the vandalism on the morning of April 3.

East Hampton Town police charged a Sag Harbor woman with felony drunken driving Sunday night after finding her 2014 Ford on the shoulder of Montauk Highway in Amagansett, engine running.

An East Hampton driver faces D.W.I. charges after crashing into a tree off Middle Highway, a few blocks from his residence, last Thursday evening. A neighbor phoned police after the crash, and an officer found Mario D. Cucunuba standing outside his 2007 Ford pickup truck.

Mr. Cucunuba, 36, told police he had “swerved to avoid a person in the road,” but admitted that he had been drinking, according to the report.

A swan went for a walk on Main Street Friday afternoon. An officer, who escorted it back to Town Pond, noted that “it did not appear to be injured.”

Police visited a garage sale on Buckskill Road Saturday morning, telling the woman running it that there had been a complaint. The woman said she had not known that a permit from Village Hall was needed.

A woman has been accused of stealing a blanket from the Sail Inn in Montauk was charged with two misdemeanors.

The Southampton Town Police Department will have to wait another month before its new police chief officially takes office.

East Hampton Village

An Amagansett resident told police the afternoon of March 13 that he had left his Apple iPhone6 on the counter at Starbuck’s earlier that day. When he returned, the phone was gone. The manager told him Starbuck’s has a surveillance system, but it could not be immediately accessed. The man told police he began searching for the device using his iPhone tracker app, which showed the phone moving around East Hampton, with stops at delis and restaurants.

Local Police Records

A Springs man with a long history of unlicensed driving is again facing the charge, this time as a felony.

Amagansett

A neighbor noticed a door ajar at an apparently unoccupied Town Lane residence on Saturday and called police. It appeared that the door had been forced open, with a lower panel damaged as well as the jamb and knob, though nothing inside was disturbed. The owner was notified, as were detectives.

Peggy DiSunno, a Robins Way resident, told police on Sunday that her mailbox had been vandalized the night before.

“Nice to see you again, Mr. McCarron,” East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana said when Michael Luke McCarron was brought before her for arraignment Monday morning. “You just got off probation, what, three weeks ago?”

East Hampton Town police made an arrest Thursday in connection with a teen's overdose during a house party in Springs in late January that outraged the community.

Patrick James McMahon of South­ampton, 25, was using his cellphone Sunday night when his 2000 Ford Mustang hit a sharp curve where Gingerbread Lane becomes Toilsome Lane and left the road, according to an East Hampton Village officer who was at the tricky intersection. Mr. McMahon later failed roadside sobriety tests and was taken to Cedar Street headquarters, where he was charged with aggravated drunken driving after a breath test produced a reported reading of .24, three times the level that defines intoxication.

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East Hampton Village

Police were summoned to Village Hall on Feb. 21, where two Labrador retrievers, one black, one brown, were running around outside. Officers were able to capture the black dog, which was collarless, but the brown one disappeared. The black Lab was turned over to an animal control officer. Police searched for the other dog, but it was not to be found.

Montauk

Thomas Slome returned to his South Elroy Drive residence Friday after being away for four days.

A former resident of the Georgica Association in Wainscott who is awaiting trial on charges of murdering his father in Manhattan was given a stern warning Monday by the judge presiding over his case.

New York State Supreme Court Justice Melissa C. Jackson warned Thomas Gilbert Jr. to begin cooperating with the prosecution’s psychiatrist or risk losing his right to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. She also cautioned him that his refusal to cooperate might do him no good with the jury.

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Local Police Records

Alleged road rage at the intersection of Newtown and Cooper Lanes in East Hampton Village Tuesday evening resulted in a crash and an arrest, according to village police, who charged Braulio Camilo Padillo-Romero, a 28-year-old East Hampton resident, with criminal mischief as a D felony and with two misdemeanors, reckless endangerment and reckless driving, as well as a violation for an allegedly illegal lane change.

A call last Thursday afternoon from a Town Lane house had East Hampton Village officers on the lookout for a man driving a 1997 Lincoln. Their report of the incident states that they wanted to “check his well-being.”

Southampton Town police have arrested a former president of the Sag Harbor School Board on a misdemeanor charge of allowing teens to drink alcohol at her North Haven house.

Southampton Town detectives are investigating the disappearance of a dozen or more artworks from the studio of a Bridgehampton artist, Elaine Marinoff, who called police to her Ocean Road residence in early January to report the theft.

Montauk

Police are investigating two reports of vandalism in Montauk earlier this month. A South Fox Street woman, Magdalena Sanchez, told police Saturday that during the night of Feb. 2 her mailbox was ripped out of the ground and thrown across the street, and that obscenities appeared on her property. Another woman, Aida Sanchez of South Emerson Avenue, told police she had filled the gas tank on her Chevrolet Suburban on Feb. 6 or 7, but found the needle on empty when she went to drive the car on Friday.

East Hampton Town police charged a Springs man with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated early Saturday morning.

East Hampton

Police warned two East Hampton High School girls last week to stop disparaging another girl on Facebook or face criminal charges of harassment. The two agreed to stop. The victim, who lives in Springs, told police she did not want to press charges at this time, but would do so if there were any more posts.

 

East Hampton Village

Police were called to the parking lot of Stop and Shop last Thursday afternoon, where a dog was spotted inside a 2014 Jeep that had its engine running.

A Springs man was charged with driving while intoxicated Sunday afternoon after his 1998 Ford pickup crashed into a tree on Abraham’s Path in Amagansett, near Thomas Avenue.

Jose T. Galos, 21, reportedly told East Hampton Town police he “was trying to make the turn and hit the tree.” He had significant swelling near his left eye, and was flown to Stony Brook University Hospital, a number-one trauma center, as a precaution.

The driver of a Jeep that was behind the pickup told police Mr. Galos had gotten out after the crash and was stumbling in the road.

An alleged prostitute who solicited business online and a man who accompanied her to Montauk in August pleaded guilty to felony charges on Jan. 11 in connection with the beating and robbery of a would-be client.

East Hampton

A Montauk woman, dining at Simply Sublime, a food shop on Springs-Fireplace Road, was targeted there by an angry ex-boyfriend on the afternoon of Jan. 21. Macarena Ramos told police she had met him there to return an iPod he had given her some time ago. He arrived at the shop with another man, who, she said, dumped a noxious liquid on her. The men then drove away.

A Deer Park man recently paroled from a state prison has spent the past few days in county jail following a domestic incident at the Royal Atlantic Hotel in Montauk.

Unable to make bail of $10,000, a Springs man charged with felony drunken driving has been in the county jail since Saturday.