Crimes Nearby: Shelter Island Justice Pleaded Guilty To Identity Theft

NORTH FORK

• Katherine Pope, who served as from 1998 to 2002, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree identity theft, a misdemeanor, and her husband, Wayne Pope, pleaded guilty to fourth degree grand larceny, a felony, for stealing more than a million dollars from an 89-year-old Water Mill woman suffering from dementia.

The plea occurred before Judge Stephen Braslow on Nov. 15 in the Suffolk County Supreme Court in Riverhead, according to a statement from the Suffolk County district attorney's office. The first day of the trial took place in Riverhead on Oct. 25.

The Popes stole the money from the victim, Mary Abbot Estabrook, over a period of four years, according to the district attorney's office. Mr. Pope had worked as a handyman for Estabrook and had allegedly obtained power of attorney from her, then used that power to write checks to benefit himself.

Estabrook died on July 4, 2009 at the age of 89. The couple will be sentenced by Judge Braslow on Jan. 10, 2012.

• A Greenport man was arrested Nov. 19 after allegedly assaulting a security guard at the Five Towns Shopping Center in North Woodmere.

According to Nassau County detectives, around 3 p.m., Steven Pirrera, 36, of Greenport, approached a male victim, 74, who was working as a security guard in a security guard vehicle in the parking lot of Five Towns Shopping Center, and attempted to open one of the car's doors. Pirrera, who had lost keys hours earlier, was upset that the security guard wasn’t able to find his keys. The victim, not knowing why the defendant would try to open his car door, drove a short distance away.

Pirrera approached the victim a second time, forcibly removed him from the car, threw him to the pavement and punched him several times on the head and face, police said. The victim then called police.

According to police, a Nassau County police ambulance transported the victim, who suffered pain throughout his body and sustained a laceration above his eye, requiring sutures, to a local hospital for treatment.

Fourth Precinct officers responded to the scene and placed Pirrera under arrest.

Pirrera is being charged with second-degree assault and was arraigned on Nov. 20 in First District Court in Hempstead.

• Kevin Glew, 22, of Southold, was charged with driving while intoxicated on Nov. 19 at 3:09 a.m. after police stopped him for failing to maintain his lane on Route 25 in Southold, police said. Glew was driving a 1999 Honda Civic westbound on the roadway.

SOUTHAMPTON

• Armond Gordon, 40, of Southampton, was arrested Friday at 11:13 p.m. on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton and charged with petty larceny, a misdemeanor. According to police, Gordon stole his former boss's iPhone in August from a table at the where he worked.

• Juan Matias, 29, of Riverhead, was arrested Thursday at 10:59 a.m. at the corner of County Road 39 and Tuckahoe Road in Southampton and charged with DWI, a misdemeanor. Police received a call about an erratic driver running other motorists off the road, identified him as Matias and pulled him over. Police then discovered he appeared intoxicated.

• Philip Monfoletto, 22, of Deer Park, was arrested Sunday at 1:59 a.m. at the corner of County Road 39 and Magee Street and charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs, a misdemeanor. Monfoletto was stopped for not using his blinker when an officer discovered he smelled of marijuana, police said. Monfoletto admitted that he had smoked marijuana several hours ago, according to police reports.

• Lester Pettaway, 19, of Southampton, was arrested Monday at 2:30 a.m. on Apple Road in Southampton and charged with second-degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor. Pettaway violated a stay away order of protection in a domestic incident, according to police.

RIVERHEAD

• Juan Matias, 29, of Riverhead was arrested Nov. 17 at 10:59 a.m. at the
corner of County Road 39 and Tuckahoe Road in Southampton and charged
with DWI, a misdemeanor. After receiving a call about an erratic driver
running other cars off the road, police identified Matias and pulled him
over, according to police reports. Police said he appeared intoxicated.

• Nicolas Santamaria, 46, of Riverhead was arrested Nov. 19 at 7:22 p.m. on
Montauk Highway in East Quogue and charged with DWI, a misdemeanor.
Police received a call about an erratic driver on Montauk Highway,
pulled Santamaria over and then saw that he was intoxicated, according
to police reports.

• Jason Rogers, 22, of Westhampton Beach was arrested Nov. 20 at 1:42 a.m. at
the intersection of County Road 104 and County Road 105 in Flanders and
charged with first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor
vehicle, a felony, and DWI, a misdemeanor. Rogers was stopped for
speeding when police saw that he was intoxicated and had a suspended
license, officers said.
 
• Jaime Aparicio, 26, of Flanders was arrested Nov. 19 at 12:43 a.m. at Cabana
Latina in Flanders and charged with third-degree criminal mischief, a
felony. Police were called to an incident at Cabana Latina about a man
who had punched in two windows at the restaurant, according to police
reports.  

• Thomas Johnston, 24, of Riverhead was arrested and charged with second-degree
harassment after an incident at the Oakland Ridge mobile home park in
Riverhead on Nov. 14 at about 2 a.m. Police did not release any
additional details about the incident.

EAST HAMPTON

• An East Hampton woman was recently after police said she kicked an officer in the face while resisting arrest.

East Hampton Town Police were originally called in relation to reports of a domestic incident on Nov. 6 between Ashly O'Shea, 31, and her husband. Upon arrival, police said she appeared highly intoxicated and when asked to put out her cigarette, O'Shea instead blew smoke into an officers' face and proceeded to make her way inside her home.

According to reports, police warned O'Shea that if she did not remove her hands from her pockets - since police were responding to reports of an incident involving a knife - she would be handcuffed while police searched for the knife and she still refused. Police reportedly attempted to cuff O'Shea, at which point she kicked an officer in the leg and was subsequently arrested for harassment of a police officer, police said. While being put into the squad car, police said she kicked an officer in the face, injuring his nose and orbital bone. O'Shea was arrested on charges of assault in the second degree - a felony - criminal mischief, two counts of harassment in the second degree, and resisting arrest.