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SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A Boyesen Road resident reported to Village Police on August 4 that a Mercedes SUV was stolen from his driveway during the overnight hours. The car had been left unlocked with the keys inside. Police said that the Mercedes tracking app showed the vehicle was at a Newark, New Jersey, address at 5:45 a.m. that morning then stopped tracking the vehicle.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A Rogers Avenue resident reported to Village Police on August 6 that an unknown man had entered her property that evening and had apparently taken items from her house. When police went to the property they found a rear door open. A review of Ring cameras on the exterior of the house showed that the man first appeared on the property about 6:30 p.m. that night and left about 9:30 p.m., wearing a baseball cap that belonged to the homeowner. It was unknown what, if any, other items were taken. The man was described as about 5 feet 10 inches tall with dirty blonde hair wearing a teal green collard shirt. Police are investigating.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Grant E. Whittaker, 44, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was arrested by Village Police at about 6:45 a.m. on August 10 and charged with misdemeanor DWI after the car he was driving struck a tree at the intersection of Culver Hill and First Neck Lane. When police arrived on the scene of the crash a witness told them the driver had fled on foot. Officers found Whittaker walking quickly a short distance up First Neck Lane and determined that he was intoxicated. He was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for treatment of minor injuries and ordered to appear in court at a later date.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE – Village Police arrested Mario Derosas, 33, of Flanders on August 8 and charged him with two counts of issuing bad checks, a misdemeanor, in connection with a check written on November 20, 2024 for $19,000 and a check written on November 22 for $43,000. Both checks were returned for insufficient funds, police say.
WESTHAMPTON BEACH — On August 4 at 9:26 p.m. Westhampton Beach Village Police responded to reports of a reckless driver who struck a light pole and continued eastbound on Main Street. Officers located the vehicle at Main Street and Alden Lane on Quiogue, where the driver, Jairo Lopez Bravo, 37, of Hampton Bays was arrested and charged with aggravated DWI after registering a .28 percent blood alcohol content level, according to police. He was scheduled to be arraigned in Southampton Town Justice Court.
QUOGUE — On August 6, at 9:09 a.m., Quogue Village Police arrested Maria Monterry Gutierrez, 43, of Westhampton Beach on an arrest warrant for grand larceny, related to a theft at the Quogue Store earlier this month. After failing to show for her initial court date after her arrest, which was scheduled on August 4, the defendant was contacted via legal channels, and subsequently turned herself in on the morning of August 6. She was arrested and arraigned, then released on same date.
QUOGUE — On August 10, at 4:21 a.m., Hercules Sotos, 23, of New York was arrested by Quogue Police and charged with misdemeanor DWI. Sotos was pulled over on Quogue Street after being observed failing to use a turn signal, police said, adding that he was found to have an open alcoholic beverage in the car. He was arrested and transported to the Quogue Village Police Department for arrest processing, held for morning arraignment and then released.
SHINNECOCK HILLS — Gracielynn Schamus, 59, of Tuckahoe was arrested at about 12:45 p.m. on August 5 by Southampton Town Police and charged with misdemeanor DWI after police received a report of a suspicious vehicle circling a neighborhood off Greenfield Road. A responding officer pulled the vehicle over and determined that Schamus was intoxicated. She refused to submit to a breath alcohol test and was placed under arrest.
NOYAC — A Walnut Street resident reported to police on August 5 that she had received a call from someone claiming to be from Best Buy saying she owed $400. The caller told her that they would deposit $20,000 in her bank account and that she should go and withdraw $19,600 in cash, wrap it in aluminum foil and hand it over to a man named Sam who would come pick it up from her using a password, “brown honda,” so she knew it was him. She withdrew the money and handed it over to “Sam” but then realized that it was a scam and called police. She said she could not describe Sam because it was dark when she met him.
NORTH SEA — The owner of a North Sea Mecox Road property owner reported to police on August 5 that someone had stolen three Stihl chainsaws, a weed trimmer and two leaf blowers valued at more than $3,500 out of a trailer on their property at some point over the weekend.
RIVERSIDE — Police arrested a Riverhead man, Tyrese McRae, 26, and charged him with robbery in the third degree, a felony, and menacing with a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, both misdemeanors. Police were called to the scene of a dispute in the parking lot of a Vail Avenue business at about 1 a.m. A man told them that he’d seen two men in a fight and that someone had asked him to call police. When he took his phone and some money out of his pocket McRae grabbed them and refused to give back the cellphone unless the victim gave him more money. The two got into a scuffle and McRae took a hammer out of his waistband and swung it at the man, then took out a pocket knife and threatened the victim with it, police said.
WESTHAMPTON — A South Country Road resident told Southampton Town Police that she’d been scammed out of $30,000 in cash after she got an email that appeared to be from Citizens Bank saying she’d been defrauded and providing a number for her to call. She was told by a person who answered that she needed to withdraw $30,000 and hand it over to another man, which she did before telling her son about the matter, who told her it was a scam.
SHINNECOCK HILLS — Nicole Salas-Fernandez, 25, of Hampton Bays was arrested by Southampton Town Police at about 8 p.m. on August 8 and charged with DWI after she was involved in a minor car accident and a responding officer determined she was intoxicated.
RIVERSIDE — Southampton Town Police arrested Darrell Haynes Bailey, 37, of Central Islip on August 9 and charged him with possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, a misdemeanor after an officer observed him on Flanders Road smoking a substance believed to be crack cocaine out of a glass pipe.
HAMPTON BAYS — A manager at Rumba Rum Bar reported to Southampton Town Police on August 9 that the business had been burglarized the night before. The manager told police that when staff arrived that morning they found a large safe had been moved from beneath a desk. Police did not say what or how much money was stolen and the investigation is ongoing.
NORTH SEA — Jose Rodriguez, 42, of Sunnyside, Queens, was arrested by Southampton Town Police shortly after midnight on August 10 and charged with misdemeanor DWI after he was pulled over on North Sea Road for having inoperable taillights and driving erratically; an officer determined he was intoxicated.
FLANDERS — Andrea Valladaresas-Tudillo, 23, of Southampton was arrested by Southampton Town Police at 2:30 a.m. on August 10 and charged with misdemeanor DWI after she was pulled over for driving erratically on Townsend Avenue and Flanders Road and an officer determined that she’d been drinking more than the legal limit.
HAMPTON BAYS — Nube Suarez-Cedillo, 44, of Hampton Bays was arrested by Southampton Town Police at about 3 a.m. on August 10 and charged with a felony DWI after police received a report of a car driving on the wrong side of the road and nearly striking utility poles. A responding officer located the vehicle and saw it drive off the roadway and onto the grass shoulder. When the officer pulled the vehicle over Suarez-Cedillo was found to be highly intoxicated with a 7-year-old in the car, not wearing a seatbelt and without a car seat, according to police. She was also charged with acting in a manner injurious to a child, a misdemeanor.
FLANDERS — Mary Mastellone, 46, of Flanders was arrested on August 10 and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, a misdemeanor, after a Southampton Town Police officer patrolling a known drug use area came toward her and she ran away. The officer chased her down and saw her throw a glass pipe onto the ground, police said. After Mastellone was apprehended the glass pipe was retrieved and was discovered to contain crack cocaine.
