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WESTHAMPTON BEACH — On September 4 at 3:54 p.m. Westhampton Beach Village Police responded to a report of a prior larceny at a jewelry store at 124 Main Street. The owner and other business establishments were informed of a prior incident at Hampton + Dunes via text, in which a woman was confronted and all items were returned without incident. The owners of Calla Jewelry then watched their CCTV footage and observed a woman enter that shop at around 2:30 p.m. and remove a sterling silver garnet necklace from a showcase and leave without making a payment. All footage was entered as evidence. The investigation is ongoing.
HAMPTON BAYS — David Driscoll, 29, of Quogue was arrested by Southampton Town Police shortly after 11 p.m. on September 4 and charged with misdemeanor DWI after he lost control of his car on Dune Road and crashed into the roadside dunes. A responding officer said that he was unsteady on his feet and failed a field sobriety test.
HAMPTON BAYS — A Bellows Pond Road resident reported to Town Police on September 5 that someone had apparently stolen a check for $574.59 that she had mailed to pay a bill and altered it to the amount of $25,740.59 and cashed it. Police are investigating.
EASTPORT — Joseph Zavesky, 32, was arrested by Town Police at about 7:15 p.m. on September 5 and charged with felony criminal possession of stolen property in the second degree as well as resisting arrest and driving while impaired by drugs, both misdemeanors. Police say they were following up on a report of a stolen vehicle when an officer spotted the vehicle driving on a private road. The officer followed the vehicle and pulled it over at the intersection of Montauk Highway and Dock Road. He found the driver to have red bloodshot eyes, and when the driver was informed he was being placed under arrest, he resisted being handcuffed, kicking and scratching the officer, police said. A field drug intoxication test indicated that his ability to drive was impaired, police said.
FLANDERS — Cornelio Valey Ruiz, 46, of East Hampton was arrested at about 10:15 p.m. on September 7 and charged with misdemeanor DWI after a police officer saw him urinating outside his vehicle on the shoulder of Flanders Road near Red Creek Road. When the officer pulled his car up behind the vehicle, Ruiz got back in and started to drive away until the officer activated his lights. Police determined he was intoxicated.
RIVERSIDE — Raymond Boslet, 21, of Riverhead was arrested by Town Police on September 1 and charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief after an apparent road rage incident in which he threw an object, possibly a beer bottle, at another vehicle, damaging the windshield, according to police. Police said the victim told them she was driving on County Road 51 near Lake Avenue in Riverside when she came up behind a vehicle that was taking up both lanes. She honked her horn to get the car to make room for her to pass when the driver became enraged, leaned out the window of his car and threw what she believed to be a glass beer bottle at her car. The woman made note of the vehicle’s license plate and reported it to police, who said they located the vehicle a short distance away, with Boslet at the wheel.
WATER MILL — An Upper Seven Ponds resident told police on September 2 that she had been scammed out of more than $100,000 in cryptocurrency from a Coinbase account. The woman told police she’d been contacted by someone claiming to be a Coinbase employee who walked her through what he said was a safety measure to protect her crypto holdings by creating a new SafePal account and making several transfers into it, totaling $100,846.26 before the woman realized she had been duped. Police say she is working with the FBI to pursue the matter.
WATER MILL — A Montauk Highway business manager reported to police on September 5 that she had discovered a fraudulent withdrawal from the company’s accounts of $31,870. A check written to a client appears to have been intercepted and altered, then cashed by an unauthorized person.
NORTH HAVEN — David Kaplowitz, 56, of North Haven was arrested by Southampton Town Police shortly after midnight on September 7 and charged with DWI after he was involved in a car accident at the Ferry Road traffic circle. Another driver told police that Kaplowitz’s vehicle had entered the circle without yielding to a car coming from the left and struck him, then left the scene. The other driver followed the vehicle that had struck him to a Cedar Haven address, where police were called. A responding officer determined that Kaplowitz had been drinking more than the legal limit.
