Crime & Safety

Crimes Nearby: Drug Possession, Larceny, Assault

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Southampton Town Police arrested a 38-year-old Riverhead woman and 41-year-old man from upstate New York on drug charges last week.
Police said officers approached Tara Bennettand and Brian Hambrick, who were parked on the corner of Flanders Road and Enterprise Zone Drive in Riverside on Oct. 18 at about 12:42 a.m. Bennett, the passenger, admitted to officers that she had a needle and crack cocaine with her, according to a police report. Police said they discovered that Hambrick, who is from Monroe, New York had crack in a glass pipe.
Bennett was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal possession of a hypodermic needle, both misdemeanors. Police charged Hambrick with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor.

Christopher Dopkins, 48, of Mount Sinai was arrested and charged with DWI on Oct. 15, after he was allegedly caught driving a party bus while nearly three times the legal limit, according to police. Dopkins, who worked for Red Carpet Limousines, was driving a wine tour bus with 25 passengers on Sound Avenue when a man at his company called to speak to Dopkins. The Red Carpet official thought Dopkins sounded intoxicated and called police, said Lt. Robert Peeker.
Police also received a call from a witness who said the bus driver drove over a traffic sign, Peeker said. Police pulled Dopkins over in the parking lot of East Wind, where he blew a .21 blood alcohol content, police said.
"[The passengers] were going out to have a good time so they could drink, but unfortunately he violated that trust," Peeker said. He added that no children were on the bus at the time.
Dopkins was charged with Aggravated DWI, a felony, and held for arraignment.

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A Riverhead man told police that two unknown men put him in a chokehold, stole money from his wallet, threw him to he ground and punched him in the head, according to a police report. The alleged victim told police he was walking on Segal Avenue in Riverhead when two men approached him and "asked him if he wanted to do business," according to a report. When the victim said no and began to walk away, he was grabbed from behind and put in a chokehold, police said. One of the men reached into the victim's pocket and took out his phone and wallet, emptying the wallet of about $348 dollars in cash. The two men then allegedly threw the victim to the ground and punched him in the head.
The two suspects were allegedly last seen by the victim getting into a black vehicle occupied by two other unknown suspects, police said. The victim reported no injuries after the mugging, according to a police report. Police said they are still investigating the incident.

SOUTHAMPTON

John Dupee, 36, of Bridgehampton was arrested Oct. 18 at 2:41 p.m. at the on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton and charged with petty larceny, a misdemeanor. Dupee took groceries from the store without paying, police said.
Burglary

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A 39-year-old man from Sagaponack told town police Friday that sometime between Oct. 10 and Oct. 19, someone went into his Parsonage Lane home and stole two Apple iMac computers, worth $2,150 each. It appears that someone may have used a key under a doormat to enter the house, police said. There are also latent prints on the desk officers will investigate, according to town police.
Stalking

A 49-year-old Southampton woman is seeking an order of protection against her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend, according to town police.
The Southampton woman told police Friday at 9:22 p.m. that her 36-year-old boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend has telephoned, texted and posted Facebook comments about her current relationship, according to police narrative.The ex-girlfriend, a 33-year-old Riverhead woman, has also threatened her and cursed at her. The woman is going to to seek the protective order, according to police documentation.

EAST HAMPTON

Zachary A. Martin, 29, of East Hampton, was arrested after his girlfriend said he attacked her with a utensil on Oct. 15. Police were called to Abraham's Path for a domestic dispute at about 10:30 p.m. and found Martin's girlfriend injured. She reportedly told them she had been attacked with either a knife or a fork, which was consistent with her injuries, police said. The Amagansett Fire Department's ambulance company transported her to Southampton Hospital. Martin had already left the scene, but police arrested him at the house on Oct. 16 at about 3:45 a.m. He was charged with second-degree assault, a felony, and criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation, a misdemeanor. Following arraignment in East Hampton Town Justice Court, he was turned over to the Suffolk County Sheriff's office and held on $5,000 bail.

Maria M. Castro, 34, of Hampton Bays, was charged with third-degree identity theft after being arrested at police headquarters on Oct. 17 for an alleged crime that took place in New Jersey. The Mantua Police Department contact East Hampton Town police about a victim of identity theft whose Social Security card was compromised. Police tracked down the use of the Social Security card to in Wainscott. Castro had allegedly been using a Social Security card that wasn't hers since 2002. She turned herself into police, accompanied by an attorney and was released on $200 station-house bail. She will be arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court on Nov. 10.

NORTH FORK

A former Shelter Island justice and her husband are accused of grand larceny — allegedly stealing more than a million dollars from an 89-year-old Water Mill woman suffering from dementia — and the first day of the trial took place in Riverhead on Tuesday, according to a report from the Shelter Island Reporter.

Katherine Pope, who served as from 1998 to 2002, and her husband, Wayne, are alleged to have stolen the money from the victim, Mary Abbot Estabrook, over a period of four years, according the the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office. Mr. Pope had worked as a handyman for Estabrook and had allegedly obtained power of attorney from her and used that power to write checks to benefit himself.

Estabrook died on July 4, 2009 at the age of 89. Click here to read the full report.

Victor Guerra-Guzman, 28, of Mattituck was charged with driving while intoxicated on Monday at 2:55 a.m. after police stopped him for a traffic violation on Route 25 in Mattituck, police said. Police also reported finding Guzman's license was suspended and charged him with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. He was arrested and held overnight at police headquarters in Peconic pending arraignment.

Brant Ovsianik, 27 of Cutchogue and Spencer Stewart, 31, of Riverhead were charged with third-degree burglary, fourth-degree grand larceny and third-degree criminal mischief on Friday after a police investigation revealed that the two men allegedly stole $40 from East End Auto Repair in Cutchogue and damaged several vehicles at the location, police said.

The owner of the shop had reported to police earlier this week that someone had forced open a rear door of the shop and stolen the money, police said. The owner also reported that the suspects removed car batteries from eight vehicles and removed a car stereo, cutting wiring, causing more that $400 in damage, police said. Ovsianik and Stewart were located and found with the money and batteries, police said.


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