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SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A woman called Village Police on January 30 to report that someone had called her demanding money and threatening to harm her mother if she did not pay. The woman called her mother, who lives in New Jersey, who told her that she was fine and had not been threatened by anyone. Police advised her that the call was a scam and that she should not send any money.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A Village Police officer pulled over a vehicle on East Gate Road and Hill Street on January 30 because the vehicle’s license plates matched that of one that had fled an officer in a previous incident in 2023. The officer determined that the driver of the vehicle was not the person who had been driving it in 2023 and fled police, so the driver was released without charges.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Julian J. Pascual, 36, of Water Mill was arrested by Southampton Village Police at about 10:30 p.m. on January 28 and charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs, a misdemeanor, after he was pulled over on Somerset Avenue and an officer determined that he was impaired by drugs. He was placed under arrest and consented to a blood collection, which was conducted by a Suffolk County medical examiner’s office investigator.
WESTHAMPTON BEACH — On January 27, at 3:30 p.m., Westhampton Beach Village Police responded to a larceny in progress at 52 Old Riverhead Road at the East End Hospice Thrift Shop. A store staff member had called the police to report that a white woman had entered the store, took clothing items and then left in a black Jeep Wrangler. The suspect had also entered the store back in November and stole a number of items, according to a police report. On the most recent occasion, the store employee told police she saw the suspect place a purse in a disposable bag she was carrying, and then head to the exit of the store. At that time, the employee asked the woman “are you going to pay for that?” at which time the woman put the purse down and left the store. The first theft, back in November, was not reported to the police. The store manager asked for a trespass affidavit to be signed but did not press charges beyond that.