Crimes Nearby: Man Caught Using Fake Jitney Ticket

Editor's Note: The following information was supplied by the East End police departments. A criminal charge is only an accusation and does not indicate guilt.

Riverhead

• Four Charged With Stealing at Tanger

Four were charged with stealing from a Tanger store; the second grand larceny incident at Tanger in Riverhead this week, police said. 

According to Riverhead police, a call came in at 4:03 Saturday afternoon about a larceny at the Gap Outlet at Tanger. Four suspects, Preisila Alvarez, Lucia Gomez, Carlos Moran-Flores, and Jorge Mauricio-Astudillo were arrested and each charged with grand larceny in the fourth degree, a felony, after police said they stole approximately $2,000 worth of merchandise from the store. 

Just two days earlier, a Coram man was arrested and charged with fourth-degree grand larceny after police said he stole more than $2,000 worth of jeans from a Tanger store. According to police, Norman Oates, 19, of Coram, was arrested at 1:35 p.m. on Thursday after taking $2,280 worth of merchandise from the True Religion store. 
Southampton

• Man Caught Using Fake Jitney Ticket

An Amagansett man has been ordered held in lieu of $7,500 bail after being brought up on a felony charge for forging Hampton Jitney tickets, according to Southampton Town police.  

Police said that Hampton Jitney employees on a bus traveling from New York City to Bridgehampton on the afternoon of April 24 became suspicious of a man who used what appeared to be a fake Hampton Ambassador ticket. When officers responded to the Hampton Jitney office on County Road 39 in Southampton, they found that the passenger had numerous forged tickets on him, according to police.

The passenger, 68-year-old Stratford Skalkos, was placed under arrest and taken to police headquarters in Hampton Bays where he was charged with second-degree forgery, a felony, and theft of services, a misdemeanor, police said.

•  Paintball Suspect Arrested

For weeks, someone had been shooting paintballs from a moving vehicle at businesses along County Road 39, and Southampton Town police say that on April 22 they caught up with him.  

Detectives were alerted at 5:55 p.m. that a vehicle may have been involved in the shootings, and police stopped the driver on Sunrise Highway in Hampton Bays, according to authorities. The driver, Terrance M. Wahl, 36, of Patchogue, was found with a loaded paintball gun in his car, police said. He was placed under arrest and charged with two counts of third-degree criminal tampering, a misdemeanor.
Shinnecock Hardware, Kazdin Pools & Spas, and Suburban Auto were among the businesses that were targeted for no apparent reason, according to Southampton Town police.