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EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE — East Hampton Village Police arrested a Springs man, Gary Thomas Benintendi, 29, after, they say, he went on a couture shoplifting spree on Newtown Lane and Main Street around noon on December 10. According to police, Benintendi hit the Louis Vuitton store at the corner of Main Street and Newtown Lane first. The report indicates that Benintendi entered the store and pocketed a pair of LV Rise Square sunglasses valued at $575, a pair of 1.0 Millionaires sunglasses valued at $790, a Monogram Row necklace valued at $605, and a black Slender Wallet1 valued at $490, then left the store without paying. Clerks in the store immediately noticed the items were missing. The security guard at the store’s entrance was able to identify the car that Benintendi made his getaway in, according to the police report. But before that happened, Benintendi continued his shoplifting spree, police said, this time entering the Gucci store on Newtown Lane. There, he is said to have shoplifted a brown bifold wallet valued at $470 and again left without paying. Because the Louis Vuitton security guard was able to identify the vehicle for police, they were able to track Benintendi to down to his residence in Springs. There, police said, they recovered all the stolen items. Benintendi was charged with criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree and grand larceny in the fourth degree, both felonies, in connection with the items taken from Louis Vuitton, and charges of petty larceny and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, both misdemeanors, for the wallet police say he removed from Gucci. Benintendi was taken to headquarters, fingerprinted, processed and released, to be arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court on January 8.
NORTHWEST WOODS — East Hampton Town Police arrested Emily B. Day, 25, of Northwest Woods on two misdemeanor charges on Friday evening. Police said that during a dispute Day picked up a branch and brandished it in a threatening manner, then got behind the wheel of a 2021 Ford Explorer and drove it right at the person she was having the dispute with. Police said she did this a couple of times before crashing the Ford into a tree. She was charged with reckless endangerment and menacing, both in the second degree, and was held overnight and released without bail the next morning, after being arraigned by Justice David Filer, who issued a refrain-from order of protection requiring Day to take no threatening or belligerent actions against the protected party.
WAINSCOTT — Town Police were called to a food store on Montauk Highway by a clerk who felt intimidated by a man loitering in the store on December 5. The man had been in the store for an hour without making a purchase, the woman told police. After speaking to the man, he agreed to leave and not return, or face possible trespassing charges.
