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EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE — An Amityville man, Matthew Gilbert Morenzi, 32, was charged by East Hampton Village Police with two felony drug possession charges on Newtown Lane the afternoon of July 16. According to police, Morenzi was behind the wheel of a 2012 Mercedes-Benz that was stopped in a no-standing zone with its engine running by Pleasant Lane. An officer interviewed Morenzi and ran his driver’s license, which police say came back as having been suspended due to a failure to answer a traffic summons in Queens County in May. The officer placed Morenzi under arrest on a charge of unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree, a misdemeanor. At that point, according to the arresting officer’s report, he searched Morenzi and found seven small plastic packets in his pocket containing a white powder. The white powder was field tested, police said, and came back positive for cocaine and ketamine, both controlled substances, with an aggregate weight of more than 2 grams, leading to the two felony charges of possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree.
SPRINGS — Two men were arrested within an eight-hour period the morning of July 16 at the same residence on what the reports indicate were unrelated domestic violence incidents, with one of those arrested being charged at the felony level. The alleged crimes involved two different victims, though at the same house. Jose Ruben Inga, 54, who resides at the address where the alleged incidents occurred, was charged with criminal contempt in the first degree, a felony, for violating a court order of protection issued out of East Hampton Town Justice Court in December 2023, according to police. Police said Inga had threatened the protected party with physical violence. He was charged with criminal contempt in the first degree. Eight hours earlier, at around 1:30 in the morning, Freddy Inga-Correa, 36, of Amagansett was charged with criminal menacing in the second degree for threatening the life of his victim with a beer bottle, police said. While the arrests were made by two different police officers, each wrote in their reports that the two victims told them they had been threatened by the two defendants, using the same exact sentence: “I’m going to beat the f--- out of you.” Both men were issued new orders of protection on behalf of the alleged victims.
EAST HAMPTON — Town Police were called to a Squires Path residence a little before sunrise on July 14. A Manhattan woman who was staying at the residence told police that there was an unknown man sleeping on her dining room table. An officer confirmed that there was a man asleep on the dining room table and woke him up. It turned out that the sleeping man had entered the wrong house. The house he was staying at was actually across the street. The Manhattan woman did not want to press charges against the apparently lost neighbor but asked police to issue a trespass warning to the man advising him that if he were to return to that residence, he would be charged with trespassing.
MONTAUK — The caretaker of a Deforest Road beachfront property with several structures on it contacted Town Police on July 15 to report that at some point during the preceding week someone had trespassed onto the property and smashed glass panes by the entrance to the main house, as well as having pulled off the door knob. Police checked the property and the structures on it and found that it did not appear that anyone had actually gained entrance to any of the buildings. The incident is being investigated as a felony case of criminal mischief.
NORTHWEST WOODS — Town Police were called to Oyster Pond Lane the afternoon of July 15 to break up an altercation between two individuals. After separating the two, police interviewed each. One of them was a woman working for the U.S. Postal Service who told police she was driving her delivery truck on Oyster Pond Lane when a man who was watering his lawn turned his hose on her, spraying water on her face. That, she said, set off the altercation. After interviewing the man involved, police warned him that if he sprayed the postal worker with water again, he could face harassment charges. The man assured police that there would be no repeat performance.
EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE — A woman riding a westbound train on the Long Island Rail Road the afternoon of July 17 contacted Village Police after she realized that her bag, valued at $1,200, had been stolen somewhere between East Hampton, where she had boarded the train, and Mastic, her destination.
EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE — An East Hampton man was issued a written warning last Thursday afternoon after a police officer spotted him and his dog on Main Beach, with his dog being unleashed and not under the owner’s control, in violation of village code.
