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Southampton Police Reports for the Week of November 27

WESTHAMPTON BEACH — Mark Green, 44, of Westhampton Beach, was arrested by Westhampton Beach Village Police on November 21 and charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs, a misdemeanor. At approximately 3:13 p.m., police conducted a traffic stop on Rogers Avenue after observing a Mercedes-Benz operating without a front license plate. The driver, Green, exhibited signs of cannabis impairment, and officers observed a burned cannabis joint in the vehicle’s center console, police said. Field sobriety tests and advanced roadside impairment testing indicated impairment: Green was placed under arrest and transported back to police headquarters for processing and to await morning arraignment.

WESTHAMPTON BEACH — Bryan Urbina Contreras, 26, of Riverhead was arrested by Westhampton Beach Village Police on November 22 and charged with misdemeanor DWI. At approximately 1:19 p.m., police conducted a traffic stop on a Toyota RAV4 after it failed to stop at a stop sign on Potunk Lane at Hansen Place. The driver, Contreras, showed signs of intoxication, including the odor of an alcoholic beverage and glassy eyes, police said. He performed poorly on field sobriety tests and was placed under arrest and transported back to police headquarters for processing and to await morning arraignment.

HAMPTON BAYS — Jack W. Farrell, 23, of Westbrook, Connecticut, was arrested by Southampton Town Marine Patrol officers at about 5:45 p.m. on November 9 and charged with operating a vessel in an intoxicated condition, a misdemeanor, after a Marine Patrol unit responded to a report of a boat having run aground and possibly taking on water in Shinnecock Bay. The responding officers towed the boat back to the Shinnecock County Park marina where a Southampton Town Police officer determined Farrell was intoxicated.

FLANDERS — Victor Tepen Ortiz, 41, of Riverhead was arrested on November 17 and charged with misdemeanor DWI after he crashed his car into a tree on Quogue Riverhead Road and a responding Southampton Town Police officer found him to be intoxicated.

SHINNECOCK HILLS — A Petrel Road homeowner reported to police that at some point between October 28 and November 18 someone had stolen a go-kart from the property.

SOUTHAMPTON — Gregori Vasquez-Mejia, 63, of Flanders was arrested at about 7 p.m. on November 21 and charged with misdemeanor DWI after he was pulled over by Southampton Town Police for speeding on County Road 39; the officer determined that he was intoxicated.

SOUTHAMPTON — Daniel Molloy, 30, of Center Moriches was arrested by Southampton Town Police at about 9:50 p.m. on November 23 and charged with felony DWI after an officer responded to a report of a motor vehicle accident on County Road 39 and found the driver to be intoxicated.

SOUTHAMPTON — James H. Lynch, 51, of Southampton was arrested at about 6:25 p.m. on November 24 and charged with DWI after Southampton Town Police were called to the scene of a two-vehicle accident on County Road 39 near Tuckahoe Road and an officer determined that he was intoxicated.