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MONTAUK — East Hampton Town Police received a report of petty thievery from a South Elmwood Avenue convenience store last Thursday afternoon. Kennedy Alexander Santiago, 22, an East Hampton resident had walked out of the store with one Dr Pepper soda, two Starbucks Frappuccinos, and one Tollhouse Chipwich ice cream sandwich, police said. Police, provided with surveillance video by store management and an eyewitness description, soon placed Santiago under arrest. A key identifying factor was that, on a cold winter’s day, he entered the store wearing sandals with socks on, apparently making him easy to spot. He was charged with petty larceny, a misdemeanor. However, he was not charged with possession of stolen property, as it appears from the report that, in the two hours since he had allegedly entered and left the store, he had consumed the items that police said he had stolen. He was processed by police and released, scheduled to be arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice court later this month.
EAST HAMPTON TOWN — Motorists were “slip sliding away” on ice- and snow-covered roads on January 6, with about a dozen collisions and accidents reported across the town being directly linked by police to the icy conditions. Springs and Montauk seemed to bear the brunt of the car carnage. In one case in Montauk, an officer taking the information from the owners of a Mini Cooper and a Tesla involved in a collision near the intersection of South Dewey Place and South Debusy Road in Montauk the afternoon of January 6 witnessed a second ice-caused accident firsthand. The officer described the site as “being on a steep hill” that “had extremely icy conditions.” While talking to the drivers involved in the first accident, a 2022 Jeep came to “a sliding stop,” which caused the driver of another vehicle, a 2014 Subaru, to skid and slide into the Jeep. It does not appear from the many accident and incident reports across the town that there were any serious injuries caused by the accidents.
