Traffic on County Road 39 in Southampton is delayed this morning in both directions due to a collision that apparently involved two vehicles. The accident happened just east of the... more
Gerardo Rojas-Martinez, 33, of Southampton was in a March 23 car accident on Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays just before 11:30pm, where he is alleged to have crashed into a parked vehicle. Responding Town Police determined he was intoxicated. The unlicensed Rojas-Martinez faces a first-offense DWI charge, a misdemeanor. He faces an additional misdemeanor for an unsafe lane-change, according to police. Oscar Riquiac-Conoz, 42, of Speonk was southbound on Mill Road in Remsenberg on the evening of March 18 with an expired inspection certificate and obstructed license plate on his 2005 Toyota, Town Police allege. Riquiac-Conoz was pulled over and ...
27 Mar 2024 by Staff Writer
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — An “unknown subject” went to Southampton Village Police headquarters on March 24 to turn in a wallet found on Narrow Lane. The wallet contained a “prop $100 bill,” among other items. SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Village Police responded to the Coopers Beach parking lot on Meadow Lane on the evening of March 22 following a report that someone was offering free doughnuts. Instead, police found a young person without a driver’s license freely doing “doughnuts” in the parking lot on his learner’s permit. He was warned, and his mom was called. SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A man believed he ...
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Former 3rd District U.S. Representative George Santos said last week that he will run for the seat currently held by 1st District U.S. Representative Nick LaLota as an independent, abandoning his earlier plan to run a primary against LaLota as an “Ultra-MAGA” alternative to the first-term Republican. According to the New York State Board of Elections, Santos will have to garner 3,500 signatures as an unaffiliated candidate to get on the ballot in November. He would have needed to gather about 1,000 signatures to run as a Republican. Santos was expelled from Congress late last year following a damning report ...
by Tom Gogola
Ercilia Contreras-Guevara, 21, of Flanders was in a car that Town Police observed parked and running in Iron Point Park in Flanders on the morning of March 11. A patrol officer approached the car and said he observed Contreras-Guevara and a male passenger smoking a marijuana cigarette and in possession of beer. Police said they determined that Contreras-Guevara was intoxicated after she performed poorly on field sobriety tests and charged her with first-offense DWI and for unlawfully dealing with a child, namely, the passenger, both misdemeanors. Mario Mastropierro, 22, of Center Moriches was reportedly involved in a single-car accident involving ...
20 Mar 2024 by Staff Writer
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A reportedly idling delivery vehicle in front of Starbucks on Hampton Road drew Village Police to the scene just before midnight on March 17. The vehicle was not idling but its refrigerator unit was occasionally kicking in, the driver told police, who in turn told him about village code that references “noise from delivery trucks.” The driver said he’d ask his boss to change his delivery route to alleviate the problem. SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A dispute broke out at the 7 Eleven on County Road 39A on the evening of March 17 when a man who was ...
by Staff Writer
A Southampton Town Police welfare check on March 12 led to an hours-long standoff with a Westhampton man who, police said, “brandished what appeared to be a handgun” at officers responding to the North Quarter residence that morning. A multiagency response ensued that included New York State Police crisis negotiators along with Town Police crisis negotiators and the Southampton Town Emergency Service Unit. They were joined by officers from the Westhampton Beach Fire Department, Southampton Village Police and a Suffolk County Police K-9 unit. The standoff lasted for several hours before Jacob Bergman, 49, of Westhampton was taken into custody ...
by Staff Writer