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MONTAUK — East Hampton Town Police arrested Charles E. Wakim, 58, of Ontario, Canada, and charged him with misdemeanor DWI around midnight on October 20. Police said Wakim was driving a 2006 Chrysler when he exited the parking lot of the 7-Eleven on Main Street going the wrong way through the one-way entrance, then failed to signal a turn while continuing to drive erratically, leading to a traffic stop. He appeared intoxicated and failed sobriety tests, police said. At headquarters, Wakim refused to take a breath test, police said, leading to East Hampton Town Justice David Filer suspending Wakim’s driving privileges in New York State for the next year when he was arraigned the next morning. That suspension is pending a hearing administered by the DMV.
EAST HAMPTON — East Hampton Town Police arrested Diego I. Pintado Yupa, 26, of East Hampton the night of October 19. Police said that Pintado Yupa was driving a 2020 Honda on Three Mile Harbor Road and was swerving across lane lines before turning onto Oakview Highway, where police said he continued to drive erratically. The arresting officer made the traffic stop after Pintado Yupa made an unsafe turn onto Middle Highway. Pintado Yupa appeared intoxicated and failed roadside sobriety tests, police said. At headquarters, a breath test produced a reading of .16, according to police, which is twice the .08 level that defines intoxication in the State of New York.
MONTAUK — Thomas J. Decker, 63, was arrested by East Hampton Town Police on the evening of October 20, and then again this past Saturday night. The first arrest resulting in a charge of criminal mischief, a misdemeanor, along with a violation charge of harassment. In the second arrest, he was charged with criminal contempt, a misdemeanor. Police said Decker, during an altercation on October 20 with another individual, smashed several kitchen items by throwing them against the wall. Decker was also said to have struck the victim with a wooden folding TV table, leading to his initial arrest. When Decker was arraigned on October 21, a stay away order of protection was issued on behalf of the victim against Decker. It appeared, from comments made by Melissa Aguanno, who represented Decker for his second arraignment on Sunday morning, that the violation of the order of protection police charged him with was a technical one in that Decker entered a space that was covered by the order of protection, but that the victim was out of state and not present at the time.
EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE — An officer investigating a noise complaint police received in the early morning on October 21 concerning a Church Street residence, identified the source of the noise as a pool pump which was running in the middle of the night. The officer asked the man responsible for the property to turn the pump off, but the man refused, police said. The officer then wrote out a ticket for the man for violating the village code regarding noise, police said.
