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BRIDGEHAMPTON — A homeless man reported to a Southampton Town Police officer on January 14 that someone had stolen his e-bike, which he had chained to a light post outside the Panera in the Bridgehampton Commons. Police inquired with the property’s management company, who reported that it had not removed the bike.
BRIDGEHAMPTON — A Riverhead man reported to Southampton Town Police on January 15 that he had been involved in a verbal altercation with two men in the parking lot of a Montauk Highway gas station after he had asked them for money. He reported that one of the men had kicked the tire of his bicycle, causing him to fall off. The other man then drove his pickup truck over the curb and intentionally struck the man’s bicycle, damaging it, before both man drove away. Witnesses gave police a description of the men and the vehicle license plate.
WATER MILL — A Noyac Path resident reported to Town Police on January 15 that she believes several items of jewelry, pocketbooks and clothing have been taken from her house over the last 14 years. She told police that she had initially thought most of the items had simply been misplaced but that over the past year she has noticed several items go missing that led her to believe they were stolen.
BRIDGEHAMPTON — Southampton Town Police responded to a call of a reckless driver who had struck a parked car and left the scene on January 16 before 2 p.m. An officer located the red Dodge pickup truck on Sagg Main Street in Sagaponack, where the driver was using duct tape to secure a sideview mirror on the vehicle. When approached the driver, Corrine Maldonado, 36, of Bay Shore, told the officer that she had pulled over because the tape on the mirror was coming undone and denied having struck the vehicle or having been driving erratically. A review of her driving record revealed that her license had been suspended for 42 infractions on eight separate occasions. Her vehicle was impounded and during an “inventory search” of the vehicle a sizable quantity of illegal narcotics and drug paraphernalia, including a scale and packaging for the sale of drugs was found, police said. Maldonado was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree with intent to sell and criminal possession of a narcotic drug in the fourth degree, both felonies, as well as misdemeanor counts of criminal use of drug paraphernalia, and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
EAST QUOGUE — A Pennant Lane resident reported to Town Police on January 15 that a friend of his had come to his house “irate” that day and shoved and hit him, accusing him of having told the man’s girlfriend that he was gay. The man said he did not want to press charges but wanted the incident documented and the friend informed he is not to return to the house.
HAMPTON BAYS — A Canoe Place Road resident reported to Town Police on January 18 that a foil board had been stolen from the rack atop his truck while it was parked in his driveway during the overnight hours on January 16.
RIVERSIDE — A Lakeview Drive resident reported to Southampton Town Police on January 13 that at about 2:50 p.m. that day she was looking out the front window of her house when she saw a Honda Accord stop in the street in front of her house. A man, whom she did not recognize, got out of the vehicle and approached her car, which was parked in her driveway, and picked up a Belgian block brick and used it to smash the window of her car. The man then got back into his vehicle and drove away. The woman was only able to provide police with a cursory description of the man and the vehicle. Police are investigating.
HAMPTON BAYS — Southampton Town Police arrested Angelo Barenfaller, 41, of Hampton Bay on January 13 after a Shinnecock Road establishment called with a report of a customer who had been asked to leave the premises. Employees told police that Barenfaller had been bringing alcohol into the bar from outside and had been told he had to leave. The man refused to give his name or show identification to police and when informed that he was under arrest, resisted by grabbing onto the bumper of a vehicle. He has been charged with resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration, misdemeanors, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, a violation.
