Crimes Nearby: Man Reportedly Drove Drunk, High With Headlights Off

Riverhead

• Riverhead resident Christopher A. Dean, 41, was charged with DWI after police allege he struck and killed a pedestrian, identified as Efren Ramirez-Gomez, 32, in a Riverside accident Monday morning.

Southampton Town Police Chief William Wilson said Dean is employed as a Suffolk County Corrections Officer. Dean posted $10,000 bail and was released. He is expected back in Southampton Town Justice Court on July 25 at 9 a.m.

• A Flanders brawl got ugly on June 19 when a volunteer with the Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance Corp. tried to break up the fight.

According to Southampton Town police, a volunteer with the Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance Corp. reported that while on duty at the station house he heard a knock at the door. When he went to answer, he was approached by a man who had come to get help because he and his friends, who are hispanic, were being beaten by a group of white males.

When the complainant went outside to investigate, he said he saw the white males engaged in a physical altercation with the hispanic males. And, when he tried to intercede, one of the suspects allegedly hit him in the leg with a metal pipe and fled westbound on New York State Route 24, police said.

• An Islip Terrace taxi driver told Southampton Town police June 17 that he was held up with a gun in Flanders, by a black male, approximately 5 feet and 8 inches tall, 200 pounds and in his 30s.

According to an incident report, the taxi driver picked up a fare at Stony Brook University Medical Center who requested to be dropped off on Flanders Road. When the man was being dropped off, instead of paying he pulled a small handgun from his waist and demanded money. The man then fled on foot.

• Megan Combs, 21, of East Marion, was charged with petit larceny and two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance on June 25 at 3:21 p.m. after police responded to a report that Combs had been shoplifting from in Greenport, police said.

Police observed Combs was exiting the store and was found to be in possession of numerous items she did not pay for, police said. She was also found to be in possession of methadone hydrochloride, and clonazepam, which she did not have a prescription for, police said. Combs was arrested and transported to police headquarters, where she was processed and released on bail.

• Keith Whitenack, 36, of Levittown, was charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, leaving the scene of an accident and failing to yield the right-of-way on June 26 at 3:45 p.m. after his involvement in a car crash on Route 25 in Peconic, police said.

Whitenack was traveling east on Route when he made a left turn and failed to yield right of way to Christine Watts-Gorman, 49, of Peconic, who was traveling west on Route 25. Whitenack struck Watts-Gorman's vehicle, then fled the scene on foot, police said. Whitenack was later apprehended by police and was found to have a suspended license.

He was arrested and transported to police headquarters where he was processed and released on bail. There were no injuries, police said.

•  tacked on a felony charge to their case against Kimberly Delrio, who police said led them in . But she wasn't in court on Wednesday to find out.

Delrio failed to appear for her arraignment at, which last she knew was for misdemeanors and traffic violations.

The 22-year-old East Hampton woman was behind the wheel of a Hyundai Elantra that police pulled over for allegedly speeding through East Hampton Village on May 24 at about 8:30 p.m. When an officer approached the vehicle Frederic Stephens jumped out and said he had been shot. He soon got back into the car and it took off, leading police on a chase for 11 miles to Southampton Hospital.

• Luis A. Villa-Ruiz, 43, of East Hampton, was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, on June 14 at about 2:20 a.m. Police pulled him over in a 2002 Nissan Altima after he crossed the double-yellow line and into oncoming traffic and then back into the shoulder on Woods Lane. He was also charged with unlicensed operator and a traffic infraction. His arraignment information was not immediately available.

• James Spencer Wright Hoffman, 26, of New York City, was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, on June 17 at about 2:15 a.m. Police said they paced Hoffman's 2011 Chevrolet Impala at 50 mph in a 30 mph zone on Woods Lane. He appeared drunk and during a routine pat-down, police said they found a small bag of marijuana in his pants pocket. He was also charged with speeding, failure to notify the DMV of an address change, and unlawful possession of marijauana, all violations. His arraignment information was also not available.

• A Southampton man was jailed June 19 in lieu of $5,000 bail after  charged him with burglary.

Det. Sgt. Herman Lamison said 30-year-old Seth T. Hilbert entered an unlocked residence on North Main Street and stole various items, including jewelry. The total value of items was estimated at $1,800. Detectives tied Hilbert to the burglary after he sold the items to a Southampton pawn shop, Lamison said.

When detectives went to an East Quogue residence to arrest Hilbert, he jumped out of a window and led police on a brief foot chase, Lamison said.

• Irineo Gutierrez, 37, of Southampton, was arrested June 23 at 11:01 p.m. in Hampton Bays and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree-alcohol related, a felony, and driving while ability impaired by drugs and alcohol and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the second degree-alcohol related, both misdemeanors.

Police said Gutierrez was pulled over on Montauk Highway East for driving without his headlights on. Police said he had a marijuana cigarette and an open 12-ounce bottle of Bud Light in the vehicle, and he admitted to drinking and smoking marijuana several hours prior.

He was additionally charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation, and several vehicle and traffic infractions, including consuming an alcoholic beverage in a motor vehicle and insufficient lights.