Crime & Safety

Crimes Nearby: Search Warrant Sparks Drug, Guns Bust

Here are some of the crime reports from around the East End.

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

Riverhead

• A search warrant led to a drug bust in Wading River on Wednesday, police said. According to Riverhead Town police, ongoing complaints from residents of the Wading River community led to an investigation by the East End Drug Task Force, in conjunction with the Suffolk County Emergency Services Unit, Riverhead Town C.O.P.E and K-9 units. 

Police said the search at 49 Overhill Rd. led to the recovery of quantities of marijuana packaged for sale, a quantity of cash, and weapon, including a .22 caliber semi-automatic pistol, a .22 caliber assault rifle, a "billy" club and brass knuckles. Also recovered were scales and packaging materials, police said.

Police arrested three residents of the address, including Gregory Brewer, 55, who was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation; he was released on an appearance ticket. James Brewer, 22, was charged with criminal use of drug paraphernalia in the second degree, a misdemeanor. He was also released on an appearance ticket. 

Justin Brewer, 19, was charged with three counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, a misdemeanor; criminal possession of a firearm, a felony; criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, a misdemeanor; and criminal possession of marijuana in the third degree, a felony. 
Justin Brewer was arraigned in Riverhead Town justice court and remanded to the Suffolk County Correctional Facility on $10,000 bail.

• A homeless man was arrested after a police investigation that involved a taxi and a K-9 unit early Sunday morning, police authorities. According to Riverhead Town police, a call came in at 3:59 a.m. Sunday morning from a Horton Avenue resident stating that a subject had forcibly entered the residence and removed a television set.

The suspect was reported to have fled the scene along with another subject in a Hampton Town Taxi.  Patrol officers located the taxi a short while later on Flanders Road in Riverside when the taxi driver attempted to leave the area, police said. Following a traffic stop on Riverleigh Avenue in Riverside, the driver of the taxi, Howard Ferebee, 28, of Riverhead, was arrested and charged with burglary in the second degree, robbery in the second degree, and criminal mischief in the third degree, all of which are felonies, police said. He was taken into custody.

The passenger in the taxi, Tremel Kelly, 20, who police said is undomiciled, allegedly fled the scene on foot. Kelly was located a short time later with the assistance of a K9 unit, hiding in a nearby hotel room at the Budget Host Inn in Riverside, police said. He was arrested and charged with burglary in the second degree, robbery in the second degree, and criminal facilitation in the fourth degree, a misdemeanor. Police said he was taken into custody without incident. Proceeds from the robbery were located in the taxi.

Southampton

•  A North Sea man was issued an appearance ticket for a felony driving while intoxicated charge Sunday night at Southampton Hospital after he got into an accident and suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Kenneth A. Huneken, 59, was arrested at 10:30 p.m. on North Sea Road following the single-vehicle accident, and transported to the hospital, according to police. Police said an investigation at the scene of the crash revealed Huneken had been driving drunk.

•  James D. Selberg-Stross, 22, of East Hampton, was arrested April 17 at 6:07 a.m. on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree–alcohol related, a felony; driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor; and being an unlicensed driver, a traffic infraction.

Southampton Town police said Selberg-Stross was pulled over for multiple traffic violations. He said he was transporting someone to the hospital, but had been drinking, according to the arrest report.

• A North Haven man told Southampton Town police April 16 that he was scammed out of $3,540 by a caller who said his grandson was in the Dominican Republic and needed bail money.  The man reported that he wired the money from a Western Union in two electronic transfers of $1,750 and two $20 fees. “After the money was sent, the subject called back asking for more money, alerting the complainant to the fraud,” the incident report states.

• A Sag Harbor woman told Southampton Town police April 18 that she sent $700 to a person in Florida via Western Union in an attempt to receive a $3,000 loan, but then the person asked for more money before releasing the loan. At this point, the victim told police, she realized it was a scam.
East Hampton

At his sentencing Wednesday morning, Edward L. Orr, who hit and killed a pedestrian in Amagansett in October, said he wished he had listened to the advice of his attorney and his parents. 

Suffolk County Criminal Court Judge William Condon sentenced him to 2 to 6 years in state prison. The 31-year-old man can expect to serve about 5 of those years due to his prior felony conviction.
 
"He begged me repeatedly to turn myself in," Orr said of his attorney, Gordon Ryan, who represented him at the proceeding in Suffolk County Criminal Court. "You already made a big mistake, don't make it any worse," was the counseling Orr said he received. 

• Kelvin Delacruz, 43, of Montauk, was arrested after he allegedly violated an order of protection during a domestic dispute on April 15. Police responded to an apartment on Duryea Avenue around 4:30 p.m., but Delacruz was gone. He was located at S. Emery Street in Montauk around 5:15 p.m., and placed under arrest. He was charged with first-degree criminal contempt, a felony, second-degree criminal trespass and acting in a manner injurious to a child under 17, both misdemeanors, and second-degree harassment, a violation. Justice Lisa R. Rana arraigned him, setting bail at $10,000 cash or $20,000 bond. He is being held at the Suffolk County jail in Riverside.


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