Crimes Nearby: Heroin, Cocaine Dealer Busted in North Sea, DA Says

The following information was supplied by the East End police departments and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. A criminal charge is only an accusation and does not indicate guilt.

Southampton 

• The East End Drug Task Force seized heroin, cocaine, marijuana, pills and cash from a North Sea home Thursday and one arrest was made, according to the Suffolk County district attorney’s office. The Southampton Town Police Emergency Services Unit and a New York State Police K-9 Unit helped execute the search warrant at 14 Locust Avenue, which was the result of an investigation into drug sales in the North Sea area, the DA’s office stated.

Michael Johnson, 27 years old, faces a litany of charges. Felony charges leveled against him include third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, fourth-degree criminal possession of a narcotic drug, and criminal possession of a controlled substance–narcotic. 

Further charges include seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, second-degree criminal use of drug paraphernalia, and acting in a manner injurious to a child, all misdemeanors, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. 

Johnson was arraigned in Southampton Town Justice Court and bail was set at $5,000.

Riverhead

• A Calverton man was charged with felony drug possession after police said they found him doing drugs in the parking lot of a Hampton Bays bar early Sunday morning.

Joseph Madigan, 27, was seen using drugs and found to be in possession of a quantity of cocaine and ecstasy, while sitting in a vehicle in the Beach Bar parking lot in Hampton Bays at 12:45 a.m., Southampton Town police said.

• Riverhead police announced on Friday that enforcement would be stepped up over Memorial Day weekend to crack down on drunk drivers, and on Saturday night, seven were arrested as the result of a Suffolk County East End DWI Task Force initiative -- two DWI checkpoints were set up on Sound Avenue and Suffolk County Route 105 in Riverhead, police said.

North Fork 

• Three men were arrested after a "large fight" that took place in a Greenport parking lot early Monday morning, police said.

According to Southold Town police, on Monday morning at 1:24 a.m., a Flanders resident, a Yaphank resident, and a Southold resident were arrested after police broke up the fight, which took place in a Main Street parking lot. 

East Hampton

Police came close to shooting a Montauk man waving knives at them with a Taser on May 19.

East Hampton Town police said Andy M. Cuello-Gonzalez, 21, was ready to use the two knives he held in front of an officer at an apartment in Montauk.

Police were called about an altercation involving a knife at an apartment on Duryea Avenue in Montauk at about 6:10 p.m. They found Cuello-Gonzalez in the apartment holding a large black handled knife with square stainless steel blade in his right hand, police said. Police ordered him to drop the knife, but he didn't. In a report, they said he was highly intoxicated.