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SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Employees at Flying Point Surf & Sport reported to Village Police on June 13 that a young woman with brown hair entered the store and stole two bikini sets valued at $433. Village detectives are investigating but charges have not yet been filed.
QUOGUE — Luis Alvarado Perez, 34, of Westhampton Beach was arrested by Quogue Police on June 14 at 4:34 a.m. and charged with misdemeanor DWI. Alvarado Perez was observed driving erratically and failing to maintain his lane while driving on Montauk Highway in Quogue, police said. An officer pulled him over, and an investigation revealed that he was driving while intoxicated, according to police, who added that he also had an open beer can in his car. He was arrested and processed at Quogue Village Police Department and released after a morning arraignment.
SOUTHAMPTON — The owner of a County Road 39 business reported to Southampton Town Police that at some point during the overnight hours of June 6 someone had broken into the business and stolen approximately $2,400 from a cash box, including $500 in quarters, and a package of cookies. Employees had arrived at the business the following morning and found a rear door ajar. Detectives are investigating.
SOUTHAMPTON— A Montauk Highway business owner told police that an employee had used a company credit card to make 48 unauthorized purchases of gasoline for a personal vehicle, totaling $2,664.45. Charges have yet to be filed.
HAMPTON BAYS — A thief returned two stolen baskets of flowers to a Hampton Bays flower shop after being caught by police with the baskets in his possession. The owner of the shop called Southampton Town Police on the evening of June 9 to report that someone had taken the two hanging baskets, worth $150, from the front of the store and gave police a description of the vehicle the thief had fled in. When located and confronted by police the man admitted to having taken the items and returned them to the shop and the owner declined to press charges.
SOUTHAMPTON — Carlos Huerta-Huerta, 27, of Hampton Bays was arrested at about 10:15 p.m. on June 9 and charged with misdemeanor DWI after he was detained by a Southampton Town Police officer on a “stop and hold” request related to a matter that police have not specified. The officer detained Huerta-Huerta as he got out of his car in the driveway of a Shinnecock Hills home and the officer determined that he was intoxicated.
HAMPTON BAYS — Robert Miller, 36, of Middle Island was arrested shortly before 2 a.m. on June 11 and charged with misdemeanor driving while ability impaired by drugs after Southampton Town Police received a report of a single-car accident on Springville Road that had resulted in a downed utility pole and that the driver of one of the vehicles involved had fled the scene. Responding officers contacted PSEG and the Hampton Bays Fire Department to secure the downed power lines. A short time later police received a call from a man claiming to have been the driver of the vehicle but refusing to give his location. Dispatchers, however, were able to determine his location from the call and he was arrested at a Springville Circle residence. He was also charged with leaving the scene of an accident and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree, both misdemeanors.
HAMPTON BAYS — An Ocean Avenue resident reported to Southampton Town Police on June 11 that she was the victim of a fraud scheme that tricked her into giving a caller her bank account info and PIN and that someone had made eight withdrawals from her account totaling $9,998.90 from banks in Shirley and Farmingville and that her account was also used to purchase money orders for $4,998.90 at a Holtsville Post Office and $2,000 in purchases at Best Buy. Police are investigating.
FLANDERS— Florencio Cuautlecampo-Hermoso, 39, of Hampton Bays was arrested at about 9:30 p.m. on June 11 and charged with misdemeanor DWI after he was pulled over for driving 101 mph in a 55 mph zone on Flanders Road and the responding officer determined he was intoxicated.
HAMPTON BAYS — Christian Miller, 32, of Hampton Bays was arrested at about 3:30 a.m. on June 12 and charged with misdemeanor DWI after he was pulled over by Southampton Town Police for driving a motorcycle at 60 mph in a 30-mph zone and an officer reported smelling alcohol on his breath.
TUCKAHOE — Southampton Town Police received a call on June 13 reporting a robbery in progress at the Carvel ice cream shop on County Road 39. Responding officers were told that a man wearing a mask over his face and a red sweatshirt and blue jeans entered the store at about 8 p.m. and grabbed an unspecified amount of money out of the cash register then fled on foot toward Tuckahoe Lane. A K-9 unit and Suffolk County Police helicopter were called to aid in the search, but the suspect was never located. Police are investigating.
NORTH SEA — A young fisherman reported to Southampton Town Police that he had ridden his e-bike to the intersection of Fish Cove Road and Noyac Road to go fishing and had left the bike leaning against a guard rail while he walked down to a nearby beach to fish. A short time later he saw a light green BMW convertible stop next to his bike and two men get out and pick up his bike and put it in the backseat of the car and drive off westbound on Noyac Road. Police are investigating.
WATER MILL — Edison Padilla, 33, no residence provided, was arrested on June 14 shortly before midnight and charged with felony DWI after he was involved in a motor vehicle accident on County Road 39 near Settlers Lane; a responding Southampton Town Police officer determined he’d been drinking over the legal limit.
FLANDERS — Joseph Folchetti, 27, of Riverhead was arrested shortly before 1 a.m. on June 15 and charged with misdemeanor DWI after the car he was driving struck a utility pole on Flanders Road and a Southampton Town Police officer administered a breath alcohol test that indicated he’d been drinking more than the legal limit.
HAMPTON BAYS — Two men, both drivers of separate cars, were arrested and charged with DWI after they were involved in a car accident in the parking lot of Hampton Bays bar at about 4:30 a.m. on June 14. Victor Basantez-Macas, 41, of Hampton Bays and Julio Salazar-Tapia, 25, of New Jersey were each charged with misdemeanor DWI and held for arraignment in Southampton Town Justice Court the next day.
HAMPTON BAYS — Freddy Condo Deleg, 39, of Hampton Bays was arrested shortly after 5:30 a.m. on June 15 and charged with misdemeanor DWI and leaving the scene of an accident with property damage, a violation, after he was involved in a car accident on Cemetery Road and a responding officer determined he was intoxicated.
BRIDGEHAMPTON — Southampton Town Police were called to the Williams-Sonoma store in the Bridgehampton Commons at about 1 p.m. on June 15 with a report of the theft of a $5,000 coffee machine from the store. The manager told police that two men in their late 20s or early 30s had entered the store and one inquired with an employee about whether the store had a particular air-fryer in stock, while at the same time the other man, described as 5 foot 10 with red hair, walked out of the store carrying a Jura Giga 10 espresso machine, valued at $4,999.95. Both men got into a black Jeep and fled the scene. Police are investigating.
