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WESTHAMPTON BEACH — Marcelino Perez-Tax, 56, of Westhampton Beach was arrested on June 29 at 8:36 p.m. and charged with misdemeanor DWI. Village Police said Perez-Tax had a blood alcohol level of .08. He was pulled over after being observed driving on the shoulder and failing to stay in his lane, police reported. His vehicle was seized by police because he had a previous DWI conviction in Southampton Town in November of 2013.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Village Police received a report of a stolen vehicle from outside a Main Street business at 11 a.m. on June 25. A responding officer spotted the vehicle reported stolen, a white Range Rover LR4 with Florida plates, traveling down Hill Street, and pulled it over. When he interviewed the driver it was discovered that the woman had gotten into the wrong parked vehicle and driven away and hadn’t realized it because she had been driving a similar SUV borrowed from a family member. The vehicle was returned and no charges were filed.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A resident reported to Village Police on June 30 that someone had stolen approximately $4,000 in cash and $4,500 in checks from a vehicle while it was parked behind La Hacienda Mexican Grill where the driver was picking up lunch. Police are investigating.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Kris Hamburger, 47, of Plainview was arrested by Village Police at about 3:35 a.m. on June 29 and charged with DWI after police responded to a motor vehicle accident on North Sea Road; officers determined he was intoxicated. Hamburger and a passenger were taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Hamburger was also charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree, a misdemeanor.
SOUTHAMPTON — A Southampton motorist reported to Town Police on June 16 at 10:06 p.m. that another driver fled the scene of an accident with no injuries on McGregor Drive.
BRIDGEHAMPTON — A Springs woman told Town Police on June 16 at 1:28 p.m. that she had parked her car at Bridgehampton Commons at about 1:15 and when she returned five minutes later, a witness informed her that a vehicle had backed out of the parking spot in front of her vehicle and struck her front right bumper. The witness told a police officer that it was a Toyota Tundra driven by a man with a rough beard wearing a hat and sunglasses, who left the area without reporting the accident.
WATER MILL — A Water Mill woman called Town Police on June 17 at 4:24 p.m. and said someone had rung up in excess of $2,500 worth of charges to her Wells Fargo account without her permission. Police took a larceny affidavit, and detectives were notified.
SOUTHAMPTON — A Shinnecock Hills motorist reported on June 18 at 2:58 p.m. being rear-ended on County Road 39 near David Whites Lane, and the other driver taking off. The victim provided a description of the other vehicle, which police identified as being registered to a Plainview address.
WATER MILL — A North Haven man told Town Police on June 20 at 2:38 p.m. that he had made a right turn onto Lower Seven Ponds Road when a second vehicle crossed a double-yellow line while speeding east and sideswiped his vehicle. The second driver was behind the wheel of a gray pickup truck and left the scene, the victim told police.
HAMPTON BAYS — A boat owner reported on June 23 that someone had stolen eight life vests, a storage box and two inflatable paddleboards worth about $2,500 from a Beatrice Drive address.
HAMPTON BAYS — Jender Chamba-Camacho, 25, was arrested by Southampton Town Police on June 25 and charged with DWI after officers responded to a report of a vehicle striking a utility pole on Squiretown Road and determined that Chamba-Camacho was intoxicated. On June 29, Chamba-Camacho was arrested by East Hampton Town Police, again for DWI. At his arraignment in East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky pointed out that the judge in Southampton had suspended Chamba-Camacho’s license after that arrest, but that his attorney, Rita Bonicelli, had obtained a hardship license for him, to allow him to drive to and from work. “This gentleman clearly has no respect for the law,” he said. Tekulsky then granted the prosecution’s request that Chamba-Camacho report immediately to the probation department to be fitted with both a GPS and a SCRAM bracelet to keep track of his whereabouts and any drug or alcohol consumption.
WESTHAMPTON — Police responded to a report by a Southampton Town employee of a burglary at the former Casa Basso Ristorante building on Montauk Highway on June 25. The building is owned by Southampton Town and is a historical landmark. Several windows and sliding glass doors had been broken by the vandals, as well as a toilet inside.
NOYAC — A Harbor Drive resident reported to Southampton Town Police on June 25 that he had purchased a bracelet online for $55,000 from a London company but when the package arrived he found it to be empty. The man told police that he has been in touch with the company he purchased it from and will be reimbursed.
EAST QUOGUE — Marianna Gromadzka, 66, of East Quogue was arrested by Southampton Town Police at about 5:40 p.m. on June 28 and charged with misdemeanor DWI after police received a report of a black Mercedes having struck a truck on Old Country Road and then driven away. An officer located the vehicle at a residence just a few hundred feet away as the driver was entering her residence and reported that her breath smelled of alcohol and her speech was slurred. A breath alcohol test indicated she’d been drinking over the legal limit.
FLANDERS — Pedro Morales-Alvarracin, 29, of Hampton Bays was arrested by Southampton Town Police at about 8:25 p.m. on June 28 and charged with misdemeanor DWI after he was pulled over for multiple traffic violations on Bellows Pond Road and was found to be intoxicated.
EAST QUOGUE — James Vega, 40, of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, was arrested at about 10:30 p.m. on June 29 and charged with misdemeanor DWI after police responded to an accident on Lewis Road. Responding officers said that Vega was “less than cooperative” at the scene and determined he was intoxicated.
