Crime & Safety
Crimes Nearby: East Hampton Drunken Driving Crash Injures 3, Cops Say
Six-year-old among the injured on Sunday.
The driver of a pickup truck that police said crashed into a BMW Saturday evening in East Hampton, seriously injuring a mother and her 6-year-old child, was arrested on a driving while intoxicated charge.
William Hurley, 60, of Sag Harbor, allegedly swerved over the double yellow line on Route 114, near Deer Haven Court, hitting the BMW around 6:15 p.m., East Hampton Town police said.
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On Wednesday, just one day after he was released from Stony Brook University Hospital, he appeared in court to face the misdemeanor charge with his attorney Edward Burke Jr. He was released after posting $10,000 bail, set by Justice Catherine A. Cahill. The Suffolk County District Attorney's office requested $25,000.
Burke said he is prepared for more charges.
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Meanwhile, the other driver, a 53-year-old from New York City, was released from the hospital on Monday, a hospital spokesman said. Her son’s current condition is not known, police said.
• A Garden City man who caused a three-vehicle accident on North Sea Road Monday was drunk at the time, according to Southampton Village Police.
Police said that eyewitnesses reported a 2013 Porsche 911 ran into the back of a 2002 Saturn that was stopped in traffic near the Sanford Place intersection, causing a chain-reaction that sent the Saturn into the rear of a 1974 Volkswagen Beetle.
Southampton Village Volunteer Ambulance transported occupants of the Saturn and Volkswagen to Southampton Hospital, where they were treated and released, police said.
The driver of the Porsche, 42-year-old Simon C. Dolmaian, was placed under arrest at 5:44 p.m. on charges of driving while intoxicated and reckless driving, both misdemeanors.
North Sea Road between Bowden Square and West Prospect Street was shut down for an hour as firefighters and ambulance crews were on scene.• Milton Estuardo Castaneda De-Paz, 35, of Riverhead, was arrested July 3 at 12:49 p.m. and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, a felony, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, driving with a vehicle with a suspended registration and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree, all misdemeanors. Police said that during traffic stop, they found Castaneda De-Paz had cocaine. His vehicle was seized under the Suffolk County Vehicle Seizure Law, police said. he was arraigned at Southampton Village Justice Court and ordered held in lieu of $12,700 bail.
• Angel Aquino, 38, of Riverhead was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony, after police said he was involved in a fight with his girlfriend on Thursday. Police said Aquino slapped his girlfriend and then chased her with a sledge hammer.
• A man was arrested in Greenport on Sunday after police said he was caught sleeping on a front porch with a bag of cocaine and a stolen credit card.
According to Southold Town police, Elvir Antontio Leon-Ulloa, 26, of Greenport was arrested on Front Street at 9:20 a.m. and slapped with felony charges, including criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal possession of stolen property.
• A Greenport was arrested and charged with a felony after police said she forged checks and stole $1,600 from the Southold business where she was employed as a bookkeeper.
According to Southold Town police, Pamela Reed, who is 20, was arrested on July 5 at 9:55 a.m. at an unnamed Southold business and charged with felony grand larceny in the fourth degree, forgery in the second degree and falsifying business records.
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