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The U.S. Marshals Service has taken the lead in the manhunt for a 30-year-old worker suspected in the hit-and-run death of a Roman Catholic nun in Water Mill more than two weeks ago, now that he is believed to have fled New York State.
Southampton Town Police detectives late Friday revealed the suspect’s identity as Carlos Armando Ixpec-Chitay, a 5-foot-7-inch tall, approximately 140-pound Guatemalan native with dark brown or black hair and brown eyes. He remains at large, is said to move about five times per night and, according to Town Police Detective Sergeant Lisa Costa, could be headed for the U.S. border with Mexico. Authorities have narrowly missed—by minutes—nabbing him at least twice, they said.
“He will be taken into custody eventually,” Southampton Town Police Chief William Wilson Jr. said this... more
Southampton Town Police detectives late Friday revealed the suspect’s identity as Carlos Armando Ixpec-Chitay, a 5-foot-7-inch tall, approximately 140-pound Guatemalan native with dark brown or black hair and brown eyes. He remains at large, is said to move about five times per night and, according to Town Police Detective Sergeant Lisa Costa, could be headed for the U.S. border with Mexico. Authorities have narrowly missed—by minutes—nabbing him at least twice, they said.
“He will be taken into custody eventually,” Southampton Town Police Chief William Wilson Jr. said this... more
The poor judgement on the part of the police is staggering. Lets let the guy flee the state/country, and then we'll release his name and photo. Brilliant strategy. Cops now say they may release his photo/identity "soon" Who gives a crap at this point? The guy is gone!!
Nice work.
Plus you are assuming that the "bunch of calls" from the public would have been counterproductive.
What about a call from a relative or friend who knew EXACTLY where the suspect was. How could this person have known that his or her friend/relative was wanted, if they did not know WHO THE SUSPECT WAS, or ...more even that a crime had been commited? Not everyone reads 27east or the newspapers (incl. Post which had a few articles also).
Really? Just what sort of jurisdiction do you think the Marshals Service has?
This is a really strange case. The unnamed individual is employed by someone with influence in very high places, and probably is being guided in this by some white shoe law firm with offices in major cities around the world. The Southampton Town Police and the Southampton Press are probably over-matched here and proceeding with the greatest ...more caution.
O, and FYI, the person of interest isn't an "animal," just, at worst, a "fleeing suspect."
Less emotion and more rational thought is called for -- and a statement on 27East's position from the Editor-in-Chief so as to diffuse further wrong-headed vitriol.
lost a beautiful human being who gave her life to God to be run down is unacceptable -- the excuses that have been provided do not help us rather
they hurt us!!! Those that have connections know how to take advantage of the system! Question: After they find this person of interest, will they arrest
or send him home??? What responsiblility does the owner of the vehicle have?
Someone posted: "The unnamed individual is employed by someone with influence in very high places, ..." Very true. Another posted: "What responsiblility does the owner of the vehicle have?" Good question, and it's mine also. Could the Press look into it?
Keystone cops and kangaroo courts are only amusing in a non-fiction capacity.
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LOL'ing AND LMFAO'ing
My guess is that since they know who he is they will eventually find him . Why?
People talk.
Chief Wilson has been quoted in other articles as saying that there were legitimate investigative reasons for not releasing the name and photo, and hopefully the Press and Ms. Reynolds will ask the Chief what these reasons were. Now may not be the best time for him to tell us, but someday he must IMO, if his credibility as "the buck stops here" Chief of Police.
On ...more another thread, a suggestion was made that the Chief may have been seeking to avoid tainting the chain of eye-witness identification, and subsequent investigation (independent of input from the public based on the suspect's name and photo), all of which could have lead to a "clean" set of reasonable facts upon which to base an arrest, search, and so forth, as required by the Fourth Amendment.
Endeavoring to keep this evidentiary trail clean is a legitimate law enforcement goal, on its own, but does it justify 11 days of not fully informing the public so we could help?
Especially if it turns out that the suspect has escaped the country? !!!!
Perhaps there were other legitimate reasons, but if so, let's hear them, Chief!
When this investigation is deconstructed, Chief Wilson will have some explaining to do. Hopefully for his sake, he was forced to follow the path he did by the DA, FBI, or U. S. Marshals Service.
In the meantime, the silence is very pregnant, and certainly not golden.
Have a good weekend.
A wealthy NYC man with connections and foreign employees gets a little drunk or high and gets involved in a fatal car accident in the Hamptons. He calls his house and has one of his employees pick him up after he ditches the car. He then offers the guy a large amount of money if he leaves the country while taking the blame for the accident. Then the man stalls on giving his employee's ...more real name to the police until the employee has time to escape the country.
In the end, the case is solved by wisecracking NYPD detectives who make jokes about the local police force. Sam Waterson makes some kind of cynical remark about justice. The press has a field day. The mayor's office is somehow embarrassed, because it always gets embarrassed on Law and Order.
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie
Money so they say
Is the root of all evil today
Roger Waters
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia.
"Avarice is the root of all evil."
The Conservatives need to come to grips with that reality.
Chief,please elaborate, jst because of the relationship with a politician, there is something amiss?
You are clearly a right leaning individual who knows the town as well as anyone and you know that people and businesses hire the undocumented and save on the labor.
Conservatives like to blame Democrats for this issue but will not hold businesses accountable for unlawful hiring.
Conservatives need to come to grips with that reality.
My point was that you (and other Conservatives) like to blame the Democrats for the undocumented, when it is the businesses who are really keeping them here. When are you all going to start going after businesses who hire non-citizens?
If they have no work, they will all go home at no cost to the taxpayer.
The silence from the authorities is DEAFENING!
Have they received any meaningful tips since they released the suspect's photo and name on Friday?
Will they update us on the current status of this case?
Will Chief Wilson ever detail the legitimate "investigative reasons" for waiting 11 days to release the name and photo?
Hopefully Ms. Reynold and the Press will not shirk the Fourth Estate's duties to air ...more whatever laundry needs to see the light of day and TRUTH!
Originally posted: Westhampton Jul 21, 12 10:07 AM
Why were there no roadblocks? Why were there no checkpoints to pass?
They let this guy slip away. Nothing will change that.
heck you can even call on the air national guard to help out. again considering the nature of the situation I don't think they would mind either...
Just for reference, I really don't believe in a "no win" situation.
Redefining the "problem", helps alot...
Citdiots!!
Come to think of it, all those case files are now at the Suffolk ...more DA headquarters. And a good thing too, as the tonnage of court documents expected to result from the street crimes corruption probe would exceed the weight load capacity of the old STPD building.
And what more appropriate a time could there be than now for Billy Wilson to renew his push for a brand new, bigger and better STPD headquarters. I''ll bet that the "technology upgrade" that he so avidly lusts after could be folded into the project and come in at under $$1M (maybe [for the first year, anyway].)
Since added expertise will include added responsibility, a 12% PBA pay rise all around would likewise be in order. Come to think of it, since so many posters have pointed out how insignificant the p.d. bill is to our taxes, why not make it 25%? We could be the first p.d. in the nation, Beverly Hills included, whose cops average a quarter-of-a-million dollars annually!
This could be Southampton Town's own little Stimulus/PDRP package.
The "incarceration of the motorist who disobeyed STPD orders to abort her attempt to drive her friend (in the process of bleeding out from a gunshot wound) to the Emergency Room." took place in East Hampton - but nice try attempting to pin that one on the STPD.
The arrest of Nancy Genovese @ Grabreski was conducted by the Suffolk County Sheriff's office (http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/Westhampton/225871/Woman-says-trespassing-arrest-at-Air-National-Guard-base-was-misunderstanding). ...more Again, nice attempt to put that one on the Town. I'm aware that she did sue the Town, and it the case was horribly bungled by now exiled attorney Michael Sordi (again, not the STPD).
But hey, I guess you're batting .333 which in the big leagues makes you a legend!
And I really like how you claim "so many posters have pointed out how insiginficant the p.d. bill is to our taxes". I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who made specific and direct comments regarding that. And you have STILL failed to answer the question, even after I pointed out that I'm not defending the salaries of officers, rather questioning why the VOLUNTEER FD costs a similar amount of the (and I'm quoting you here) "stupednously overpaid" STPD.
Sorry, for my mistake. Substitute the decision to deploy the STPD SWAT team to suround a house in which an unarmed, despondent, solitary man had sequestered himself. Dumb decisions by the STPD are plentifully abundant so that no one need poach on a neighboring jurisdiction.
It was an off-duty, bored STPD lieutenant who reported the "suspicious" behavior of the local mother of two photographing a tourist attraction that started the whole Gabreski terrorist farce in ...more motion. It was a even dimmer colleague in another police agency who carried it to the slapstick of an arrest.
What is the relevance of your question about the volunteer FD? The FD costs a substantial amount even though the volunteers are not stupendously overpaid. The STPD costs a substantial amount because the cops ARE stupendously overpaid. If you can make a substantial case that the volunteers ARE, in fact, contrary to common belief, stupendously overpaid, then their pay should be dramatically cut, just like the cops.
My relevance (which I've explained to you numerous times because you love dodging the question and not providing answers which doens't help your case at all) is this: Why would a VOLUNTEER service, that doesn't pay its participants cost just as much in tax payer dollars as an entire police force was "stupendously overpaid" cops? Your hatrid for the STPD stems from your belief that they are overpaid and that the Town needs to right this wrong. However, it is my view that if you think your tax dollars are being abused by a paid police force, why are you OK with your tax dollars being abused tenfold by the fire departments?
You, tinfoil, clearly have a serious agenda against the STPD. It's not because you think they are overpaid, you just use that as your vehicle to knock them down every chance you get. There are so many other things you can hang your massive tin hat on if you want to teardown the police department, but their salaries isn't one of them unless you are going to show equal outrage at the fire departments.
If Police base pay were cut in HALF (assuming benefits stay the same because you can't as easily cut a benefit in half) how much would your taxes go down. Please, give me an ACTUAL dollar amount. Stop beating around the bush. Tell me in dollars HHS
Does the offering of the reward suggest that the trail has gone cold?
It would be good to help many of us understand why there appears to be a news blackout with this on-going story.
Mr. Zaro, the owner of a waterfront estate on the southern tip of Rose Hill Road, recently retained legal counsel, Sag Harbor attorney Edward Burke Jr., for what Mr. Burke said will likely be a civil case against his client stemming from his ownership of the vehicle involved in the fatal crash.
Mr. Burke said that Mr. Zaro, who was in New York City at the time of the fatal accident, has been cooperative with police, that he did not help Mr. Ixpec-Chitay escape, and that he encouraged his employee to surrender. Mr. Burke said he does not expect Mr. Zaro to face criminal charges in connection with the case.
The silence from the authorities is still deafening.
Hopefully Chief Wilson will have an update early this week on the status of the case, and will begin to detail the legitimate "investigative reasons" for waiting 11 days to release the suspect's name and photo, a decision which is becoming more questionable day by day, or should we now say ...more week by week?
Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst -- this may be a good time for you to chime in also IMO. Do you stand behind the actions of Chief Wilson and the SHT PD in all respects here?
Apparently the suspect has fled the country, and is nowhere to be found?
that no further information is forthcoming regarding this issue. A life lost and
no accountability! Question: WHO WAS ACTUALLY DRIVING THE CAR at
the time of the accident??? Hopefully, the SH Press will have news soon!
The final paragraph leads off with a stinging indictment of the decision to wait eleven days before releasing the suspect's name and photo:
"But this was a 'pass/fail' situation, and the pursuit failed. The confidence [that existing leads would pan out] seems now to have been misplaced, and looks more and more like hubris."
Please buy the Press and read the ...more entire editorial.
Well said, Editor Shaw. Thank you for not mincing words.
There have been no substantive updates from Chief Wilson on the whereabouts of the suspect, and no indication of how and when the wheels fell off the investigative car.
If the decision to delay releasing the suspect's name and photo was made by higher-ups, the time for a full "mea culpa" is fast approaching IMO. The silence to-date is deafening.
Monday evening will mark full ...more "four weeks and counting" of silence about this tragic death, Will Supervisor Throne-Holst step up to the plate and explain things, in view of the fact that "the buck has stopped" at her desk? Perhaps someone from the U. S. Marshals Service knows what happened?
What justification is there for continued silence?
On whose hands does the blood remain, other than the suspect's?
Rest in Peace, Sister Walsh.
Hopefully the authorities are in the process of finding the suspect, and bringing him to justice..
It is difficult to imagine, however, why they cannot update us on the status of this, and why the Press has not followed up on its editorial label of "hubris" to describe the authorities' 11-day delay in releasing the suspect's name and photo.
Regarding yesterday's tragic crash ...more in East Hampton Village which took the life of Gregg Saunders, will the EH authorities also let the other driver, Mr. Rechler, slide, without being charged with more than crossing over the double yellow line?
http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/General-Interest-EH/434663/Serious-Accident-Closes-Section-Of-Montauk-Highway-In-East-Hampton-Village?message=posted
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"The U.S. Marshals Service, which had taken the lead on the manhunt, has not returned requests for comment.
"Southampton Town Police Sergeant Lisa Costa did not reply to several questions emailed to her this week, including whether the suspect is believed to ...more still be in the United States and what details of the accident reconstruction process have emerged. She would only say the investigation is “ongoing and active.”
“Whether it takes another day, month, or year, we are committed to finding him and bringing him before the court for proper justice,” she wrote.
[end quote]
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What a tangled web we weave!
Have a good weekend.
Ditto to just breath's comment above. IMO at least one of the suspect's friends and family would have been horrified by this crime, and would have turned him in immediately, probably even without the reward. (This assumes he did not have any enemies who would have jumped at the chance to rat him out.)
But for the authorities to wait 11 days to release the photo and ID boggles the mind.
Sgt. ...more Costa's statement above that the investigation is "ongoing and active" is of little reassurance (how is that for a restrained understatement!).
Chief Wilson should be preparing to face the press and the public (his employers) in a public news conference to justify the course taken by this entire investigation.
Supv. Throne-Holst should expect an invitation to this event also.
Let them refuse to appear. THEN we will know a bit more about how SH Town works (or doesn't?).
When is the next Town election?
Isn't anyone else here outraged by this? Speak out!
PS -- Tomorrow evening will mark the fifth week since Sister Walsh was killed.
RIP
LI Native and just breath make a good points.
Where is the outrage about this injustice?
The last statement from the SHT PD on August 1st (over two weeks ago) was basically a "leave us alone" brush-off IMO.
Moreover, the Press has apparently not followed up and insisted that ...more Chief Wilson and Supv. Throne-Holst become more publicly involved in this discussion. [If there have been updated articles, they are below the radar screen of the home page here IMO.]
Is the Press's "thumbs down" comment about the investigation's "hubris" the extent of how ruffled its feathers will get? One hopes not!
Why such a deafening silence from SHT? Don't they work for us? Or are they above reproach, except in the voting booth?
Have a good weekend.
Rest in Peace, Sister Walsh.
Via the "Contact Us" tab at the top right of this page, you can navigate to the email addresses of the publishers, editors and reporter regarding the growing pregnant silence here.
If more concerned citizens began to ask questions, might we learn more?
PS -- The email addresses of Chief Wilson and Supv. Throne-Holst are available on the SH Town web site.
The Press appears to have abandoned her as well.
The curious silence from the authorities continues in this, the SEVENTH work week of the "investigation."
What gives?
The silence continues from the authorities.
Mind boggling IMO -- both the lack of outrage here, and the dearth of follow-through from the media to challenge Chief Wilson and Supv. Throne-Holst to comment publicly in detail about this investigation and the decision to wait eleven days to release the suspect's name and photo.
Chief Wilson and Supv. Throne-Holst commented on a number of other accidents or traffic problems, but there are NO official comments on this hit-and-run.
Nothing about the 11 day delay in releasing the suspect's name and photo.
Nothing about the status of ...more the investigation, even though Labor Day will mark TWO MONTHS
. . . TWO MONTHS during which the authorities have been looking for the suspect.
No indication that the Press has even asked the Chief or Supervisor for comments in this regard.
Were they asked to comment and refused?
Let's get to the bottom of this sordid affair.
What's up? !!!
Rest in Peace, Sister Walsh.
Guess which one is still unsolved, and the suspect remains at large?