Police & Courts

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An Amagansett man was charged with aggravated drunken driving last Thursday night after crashing his 2000 Nissan into a wall off Accabonac Road.Elfido Lopez-Mendez was headed south on Collins Avenue, just inside East Hampton Town police jurisdiction, when his car drifted across the double yellow line as he turned left onto Accabonac. After making the turn, he swerved off the road, across a grassy shoulder, and into and onto a slate wall in front of a residence.

A filmmaker whose documentary “The Uncondemned” is to be shown at the Hamptons International Film Festival was killed in a one-car crash early last Thursday morning. Nicholas J. Louvel, 34, was traveling north on Route 114 when his vehicle crossed into the southbound lane, left the road, and struck several trees.

Mr. Louvel, who lived in New York City and Wainscott, was pronounced dead at Stony Brook University Hospital.

The Coast Guard on Friday came to the aid of a man who was experiencing chest pains and numbness and tingling in his left arm while aboard a cable-laying vessel off the coast of Montauk.

Shortly before 9 a.m., according to a Coast Guard statement, watchstanders with the Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound command center received notification from the vessel, called the Decisive, that a man was in need of medical assistance.

East Hampton

Terry Wallace of the Wallace Gallery received a call from police early on Sept. 21, after they discovered a shattered window on his shop, which is on an alley between Main Street and the Reutershan parking lot. The gallery features classic American artwork, as well as works by local artists. Mr. Wallace checked and reported nothing missing.

Police were called to the area near the jetty at Georgica Beach last Thursday afternoon due to a complaint about vehicles on the beach. Police arrived as several surfers were leaving in four-by-four vehicles.

A local tennis pro was arrested on a misdemeanor drunken driving charge Tuesday morning for the fourth time in the past three years. Two of the prior cases are pending in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court.

Kiril P. Tcherveniachki, whose LinkedIn page describes him as the director of tennis with Annacone Tennis Management, was first arrested in East Hampton during a sweep in 2012. His lawyer, Edward Burke Jr., negotiated a reduced charge for him at the violation level.

On April 22, 2014, Sag Harbor police allegedly found Mr.

Amagansett

Andrew Sabin of Bluff Road called police last Thursday to complain that he had received an anonymous letter with a copy of an article about him that appeared in The New York Post on Aug. 30, featuring the anti-Hillary Clinton signs that he had reported stolen from his front lawn. Mr. Sabin told police he wanted the anonymous-letter incident documented.

East Hampton

Joseph Martin, a Queens Lane resident, told police that at some point on Sept.

A man who was a resident of Phoenix House, the drug treatment center on Industrial Road in East Hampton, was arrested after allegedly breaking into the East Hampton Town police car impound yard.

Felicia R. Taylor, a former CNN anchorwoman, was arrested after an accident in Sag Harbor Village on Sept. 4.

A bicyclist was struck by a car that was trying to make a left into the parking lot near CVS pharmacy in East Hampton Village on Sunday afternoon.

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Drivers should be aware that there will be some road closures to accommodate the Springs Fire Department’s 50th anniversary parade on Saturday.

For local police, the Labor Day weekend climaxed a hectic summer on and off the roads, with 14 people arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court on charges of driving while intoxicated.

A visitor to Amagansett was said to have suffered a spinal injury when he dived into a pool at the start of Labor Day weekend.

The Sag Harbor Village Police Department, once again, has two sergeants in the ranks. Robert F. Drake, a full-time village police officer for 14 years, was newly minted at a village board meeting on Tuesday evening.

Amagansett

Andy Sabin told police last week that two yard signs reading “Hillary for Prison” were yanked up on Aug. 25 from in front of his Bluff Road house.

East Hampton Village

Police were called to Winston’s Restaurant on Aug. 31 on a report of a knife fight. Two men were arguing, a witness told police, then exchanged blows. One of them was overheard saying he was going to get a knife from his car. Police tried to calm that man down, but ended up handcuffing him.

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The East Hampton Town Ordinance Enforcement Department served the Surf Lodge in Montauk with citations on Aug. 25 for an illegal change of use and a site plan violation, both stemming from the use of the outdoor deck, which has never received site plan approval, as a pop-up yoga studio, according to Betsy Bambrick, the town’s director of code enforcement.

Three local men charged in separate incidents with workplace-related crimes were arraigned recently in East Hampton Town Justice Court.

Two women who were supposed to be taking care of infants while their parents worked instead were force-feeding, pushing, and slamming the children down onto the floor, according to Southampton Town police.

Sean P. Ludwick, a former partner in BlackHouse Development, a New York City real estate firm, was charged with drunken driving early Sunday morning.

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Jose M. Chuchuca-Loja, 37, an East Hampton Village resident, was driving a 1995 Toyota Celica, police said, when he struck another car at the intersection of Newtown Lane and Main Street and drove away. A Carlos Taxi driver, who saw what happened, called police and then followed the Toyota to the 23-hour parking lot near Lumber Lane.

East Hampton Village police said the car was not hard to find because it had front-end damage, a broken axle, and smoke coming from the engine. Police said they found Mr. Chuchuca-Loja running away from the car.

At about 4:30 Friday morning, a man who was renting a house for the weekend forced his way into a house elsewhere in Montauk.

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A sharp-eyed officer recognized the teenager as the man who was seen four nights before, in a surveillance video outside Plaza Sports on Montauk Main Street, stealing a Nickel skateboard.

A Montauk woman was critically injured Friday morning after being hit by an S.U.V. The victim, Mariana Guanga-Baculima, 32, was flown by helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital, where she was listed in critical but stable condition.

The accident occurred near the west entrance to the hamlet, about a half-hour after sunrise. According to police, Robert Budesa, 64, also of Montauk, was driving a 2005 GMC Yukon east at a fairly low rate of speed.

Police from across the county were on the lookout for drunken drivers over the weekend, and made five arrests in East Hampton Town.

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.

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