Crime & Safety

Crimes Nearby: DWI, Drug Arrests and Endangering a Child Charge

The following information was supplied by police departments on the East End. A criminal charge is only an accusation and does not indicate guilt.

NORTH FORK

• Adam Laskowski, 53, of East Marion, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child on June 19 at 12:44 p.m., after police noticed Laskowski walking a bicycle with a child in a child seat without a helmet on Main Street in Greenport, police said. An officer stopped Laskowski to interview him, smelled an odor of an alcoholic beverage, and found Laskowski to be intoxicated, police said. Laskowski was arrested, transported to police headquarters in Peconic where he was processed and held for arraignment.

• Following a call from another car driver, a Greenport man was arrested Thursday night by Southold Police after they said he was driving under the influence of drugs on Route 25 in Mattituck. According to Southold Police, a motorist called police around 7:30 p.m. to report an erratic driver, heading westbound on the road while crossing over into the eastbound lane.
Southold Police responded and reported witnessing the driver, 48-year-old Kenneth T. Finne, cross over the double line. Police said he was found to be impaired by drugs.

• Kevin Smith, 26, of Greenport, was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance on June 16 at 2:35 a.m. on Adams Street in Greenport. An officer on patrol noticed Smith’s hand in his pocket and when he asked Smith to take his hand out of his pocket, the officer found a small brown vail with a white powdery substance in it, police said. The officer checked the pocket and found Smith had poured the powder, which was tested later and found to be cocaine, into his pocket, police said. Smith was arrested, processed and released on cash bail with a later court date.

SOUTHAMPTON

• Evan C. DeRobertis, 30, of Southampton, was arrested June 14 at 2:48 a.m. on Roses Grove Road in Noyac and charged with DWI, a misdemeanor, as well as multiple traffic infractions. Police said DeRobertis was failing to maintain his lane and driving into the oncoming traffic lane. He had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage on his breath, slurred speech and was unsteady on his feet, according to the arrest report. Police said DeRobertis admitted to drinking “a bunch of beers” at a bar.

• Andrew P. DeRobertis, 33, of Southampton, was arrested June 14 at 3:23 a.m. on Roses Grove Road in Noyac and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, a misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. Police said DeRobertis was the passenger in a vehicle when the driver was arrested for DWI. Marijuana was located in plain view in the driver side door pocket of the vehicle, and a search of the vehicle turned up a micro Ziplock bag of cocaine in the center console, according to the arrest report. Police said DeRobertis admitted that the marijuana and cocaine were his.

• Patrick James McGay, 18, of Southampton, was arrested June 17 at 1:43 a.m. on Majors Path in North Sea and charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs, a misdemeanor, as well as vehicle and traffic infractions. Police said McGay was stopped for failing to maintain his lane and when an officer approached the vehicle there was a strong odor of marijuana. McGay was brought to police headquarters in Hampton Bays, processed and held for arraignment.

• Nicholas J. Devine, 40, who police identified as homeless, was arrested June 12 at 4 p.m. and charged with criminal mischief in the second degree, a felony, and aggravated harassment in the second degree, a misdemeanor. Sag Harbor police said Devine was arrested for an incident of criminal mischief that occurred June 7 and on an outstanding warrant for harassment. Sag Harbor police said that Devine was picked up by the East Hampton Village Police at a gym for the warrant and was transported to Sag Harbor Village, where he was arraigned at Sag Harbor Village Justice Court.

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EAST HAMPTON

• , 23, of East Hampton, is being held on $50,000 cash or $100,000 bond at the Suffolk County Jail in Riverside, following his arrest on charges of felony driving while intoxicated, driving without an Interlock ignition device, and with a suspended license. Police said he hit a tree in a 2000 Toyota on Spring Close Highway, near Montauk Highway, on June 3 at about 12:10 a.m. When police arrived, he was outside the car, but the keys were still in the ignition and the engine was running. Police found that his license had been revoked on Jan. 12, 2012, for aggravated DWI and had not been restored. Neither Tacuri or the passenger, Luis Jarama-Zhinin, the registered owner, were injured.

• Felipe Marin, 21, of Montauk, was charged with drug possession on Monday morning after police stopped him in the Montauk precinct parking lot on South Embassy Street for carrying an open bottle of Corona beer. The officer also smelled marijuana on him. As Marin was emptying his pockets, police said he threw a plastic ZipLock baggy, with a green leafy substance in it, to the ground. Police took him into the precinct and while conducting a search, said they found a small orange glassine envelope with a white powdery substance in his coin pocket of his pants. The substances field tested positive for marijuana and cocaine. He was charged with seventh-degree possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. He was released on $100 station house bail.

• Three young men — 22, 21, and 19-year olds from East Hampton — were arrested on criminal trespass charges after they were found on a shrink-wrapped boat inside a storage facility on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton on June 11. They were charged with misdemeanors and will be arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court at a later date.

RIVERHEAD

• Desmond J. Bright, 31, of Flanders, was arrested June 7 at 9:10 a.m. in Riverside and charged with criminal impersonation in the second degree and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the second degree, both misdemeanors, as well as being an unlicensed driver and littering, both violations. Police said Bright was pulled over for throwing garbage out the window while driving on Route 24 and misidentified himself to an officer.

• Riverhead Town Police responded to a call on June 13 at 3:05 p.m. from a Doctors Path resident who said that her son had taken her car without her permission. Prior to the arrival of police at her home, officers observed the vehicle heading northbound on Doctors Path. Officers determined that Paul T. Booker, 33, was wanted by Riverhead Town Police on an outstanding warrant and arrested him; the defendant was also charged with operating the vehicle without a license.The car was returned to Booker's mother. Booker had on second-degree burglary charges.

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