Crimes Nearby: DWI and Drug Arrests Across East End

SOUTHAMPTON

A 25-year-old Hampton Bays man who was ran into trouble with police again Oct. 3 in Water Mill.

According to police, at around 7:13 a.m., Shawn Stoeckert was aggressively tailgating an officer who was driving in his personal car near the corner of Cobb Road West and Stephen Halsey Path. They both pulled over, and the officer walked back to Stoeckert’s Ford pickup truck to identify himself, police said.

Stoeckert became hostile and aggressive, and threatened to hit the officer with his car, according to police. He then sped away, officers said. The officer, along with two others, followed Stoeckert’s pickup and approached him again, pulling him over, according to police.

Stoeckert was hostile and verbally abusive when officers tried to handcuff him, police said. He was arrested at the corner of Flying Point and Cobb roads and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and second-degree menacing, all misdemeanors.

Southampton Town police say they have caught two men who have plagued the township with. Jeison Portuguez, 18, and Alexander David Erraez-Leon, 21, both of Hampton Bays, were seen casing vehicles around Eisenhower Drive in East Quogue on Nov. 6, police said.

The pair were under surveillance by town detectives, according to police, who said that at 12:15 a.m., while Portuguez and Erraez-Leon were stopped in Erraez-Leon's vehicle at Montauk Highway and East Tiana Road in Hampton Bays, they were arrested and the vehicle was impounded. "Detectives spent a majority of their investigatory efforts compiling and analyzing, reviewing types of vehicles, items stolen, location, time of day and day of week, and collecting and processing evidence from the crime scenes," police said in a statement.

RIVERHEAD

Jose Arriaza, 35, of Riverhead was arrested early on Nov. 6 at the corner of Flanders Road and Kirk Avenue in Riverside and charged with DWI, a misdemeanor. Arriaza was stopped around 2 a.m. for unsafely passing another vehicle and speeding when police discovered he was intoxicated, police said.

A 55-year-old man from Water Mill told Town Police that sometime between 2 p.m. on Oct. 23 and 9 a.m. on Oct. 27 someone took his Starcraft aluminum boat, another boat and a motor, altogether worth $1,600, from his property on Maple Avenue in Flanders. Police are investigating.

EAST HAMPTON

Mario G. Colon, 42, of the Bronx, was arrested after he allegedly was found with items that belonged to the, where he worked last month. said they were called down to the club on Oct. 23 after Colon and another employee allegedly took 10 bottles of Champagne, valued at a total of $100, silverware, worth $100, about $50 in linens and about $20 in cleaning supplies.

The items were found in the car, after the police were called. Their boss did not want to press charges at the time, but the employees were told they were not allowed at the club again.

However, Colon was arrested on Nov. 4, though police did not indicate what occurred in between. He was charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and petty larceny, both misdemeanors. Catherine A. Cahill released him on $240 bail.

A 49-year-old Montauk business owner has been arrested on 10 felony and two misdemeanor charges related to the sexual assault of a child.

East Hampton Town police announced on Monday that Paul S. Apostolides, who also lives in Islip, is being held on $150,000 bail following an arraignment in Suffolk County Criminal Court. He pleaded not guilty before Judge Barbara Kahn on Nov. 4. 

Detective Lt. Chris Anderson said the investigation was launched after a complaint was filed and took place over the course of several months.
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NORTH FORK

Jared Martin, 21, of New Suffolk was charged with seventh degree criminal possession of a controlled substance on Nov. 3 at 9:52 a.m. after Southold Town Police stopped him on Elijahs Lane in Mattituck for driving a 1989 GMC suburban with a suspended license, police said. Police found a pill that was later identified as a controlled substance and an amount of marijuana in the vehicle, police said. Martin was arrested and processed at police headquarters and later released on bail.

Dorothy Guthrie, 41, of Laurel was charged with driving while impaired by drugs on Nov. 3 at 5:20 p.m. after police responded to the scene of a car accident in which Guthrie was involved on Bray Avenue in Laurel, police said. After investigation, was found to be impaired by drugs and was arrested and held overnight at police headquarters in Peconic pending arraignment.

Yimi Escamilla, 32, of Riverhead was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle on Nov. 5 at 8:37 p.m., after Southold Town Police stopped him for a traffic violation on Route 48 in Mattituck, police said. After investigation, police found that Escamilla had a suspended license and also had an active warrant for his arrest, police said. He was arrested and transported to headquarters in Peconic where he was held for the Suffolk County Fugitive Squad.