Crime & Safety

Crimes Nearby: Sexual Abuse, DWI, Assault

The following information was supplied by various town police departments. A criminal charge is only an accusation and does not indicate guilt.

Riverhead:

Harassment:
Melvin Henderson, 45, of Riverhead, was arrested on Sept. 30 and charged with second degree harassment. Police responded to a call from Riverhead Car Wash, where Henderson worked, after an alleged altercation between Henderson and an employee. The employee claimed that Henderson grabbed him and threw him to the ground, according to a report of the incident. Police said Henderson admitting to striking the victim after he allegedly made derogatory comments about Henderson's mother. Henderson was arrested and released on an appearance ticket.

Assault
SouthamptonTown Police arrested a 20-year-old Calverton man on Sept. 28 and charged him with assault after he and another unknown suspect allegedly attacked another man in Flanders. Police arrested Calvin Brown for second-degree assault, a felony, according to a police report.

Officers responded to a 911 call that day after a reported fight on Wood Road Trail at about 9:48 p.m., police said. The victim told police that two men hit him on the head with a metal pole while he was walking home on Flanders Road, according to a report of the incident. The victim told police the attackers took his black leather wallet, a Guatemala ID card and $250 cash, according to a police report. The victim then ran toward Wood Road Trail, where he was later found by police. The Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance transported the man to Peconic Bay Medical Center, according to police. An update on his condition was unavailable.

Brown was remanded to the Suffolk County Jail in Riverhead on Wednesday. Detectives said they are still investigating the incident and are searching for the other alleged attacker.

Miller Place-Rocky Point:

Michael Evans, 45, of Ridge was arrested Sept. 24 in Mt. Sinai and charged with third degree assault. Reports indicate Evans was arrested for an alleged assault that took place on Overlook Dr., Mt. Sinai.

Peter Bonghi, 42, of Rocky Point was arrested Sept. 23 in Patchogue and charged with second degree criminal contempt, and criminal possession of a controlled substance. Reports indicate Bonghi was arrested on Waverly Ave., Patchogue.

Justin Collier, 23, of Mt. Sinai was arrested for the Sept. 14 robbery of a Capital One Bank in Rocky Point. Collier is charged with third degree robbery for the heist, which caused the Rocky Point School District to go into lock out of all buildings.

East Hampton:

A 16-year-old boy from East Hampton was arrested after an ongoing domestic dispute with his mother on Sept. 24. He allegedly punched out a window in her car during an argument when she was driving his friend home at about 1 a.m. She told him he was going to have to explain to his father why he broke the window when he woke up in the morning. At about 9:30 a.m., the mother and son had another altercation and he allegedly picked up a bottle of beer and broke it on the coffee table next to her. East Hampton Justice Catherine A. Cahill had already issued a court order that was to expire on Oct. 5. The boy had left the house with a sleeping bag when police arrived, but they found him on Three Mile Harbor Road, near Will Curl Highway. The boy, whose name was withheld because he is eligible for youthful offender status in court, was charged with  criminal mischief and first-degree criminal contempt, both felonies, and second-degree harassment and unlawful possession of marijuana, both violations. Justice Lisa R. Rana arraigned him on Sept. 25. He was held on $1,500 bail.

Angel R. Palacios-Parra, 37, of East Hampton, was arrested on a charged of second-degree forgery of an official document on Sept. 26 at 6:50 p.m. Police said he was driving a black Ford Expedition on Springs-Fireplace Road, near North Main Street, when police stopped him for not wearing a seatbelt. It turned out the registration sticker was altered, police said, to have an expiration with June 2012. Justice Rana arraigned him and released him on $3,000.

Jorge E. Guanga, 36, of Montauk, was arrested on a felony driving while ability impaired by drugs charge on Oct. 2. An officer was driving on Soundview Drive when Guanga came out of Captain Kidds Path almost causing an accident. The officer pulled Guanga over and smelled marijuana coming from the car. Guanga also allegedly making sluggish movements. Police said they found a clear plastic bag of marijuana. His car was impounded due to a prior DWI and he refused a blood sample, police said. Arraignment information was not immediately available.


Leydi E. Tubatan, 27, of East Hampton, was arrested on a charge of second-degree of obstruction of governmental administration, a misdemeanor, on Sept. 25. Police were called to Wood Oak Lane for an active domestic dispute between her and her husband at 5:30 a.m. When asking Tubatan if her dog was aggressive, she reportedly gave police an attitude. Later, she started screaming at police and her husband. When she was directed to stay away while police spoke to her husband, she refused and police took "her by the arm and with her momentum, the defendant fell onto the bed and kicked the officer in the chest area." She was released later with an appearance ticket.

Westhampton-Hampton Bays:

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Larceny
A 47-year-old man from Montauk told Town Police that sometime between 11:30 a.m. and 1:25 p.m. Friday on South Country Road in Quiogue near J & V Auto Salvage, someone broke the passenger side window of his car and stole a pocketbook sitting on the front seat. The cameras at J&V were not turned on or hooked up to a recording device, according to police. The pocketbook contained Ecuadorian passports, $500 cash, Visa debit and credit cards and a driver’s license, according to police documentation.


DWI
Timothy McDonagh, 44, of Southampton was arrested Friday at 2:24 a.m. at the corner of Montauk Highway East and Gravel Hill Road in Hampton Bays and charged with DWI, a misdemeanor. Police said McDonagh was stopped for driving out of lane when police discovered he appeared intoxicated. McDonagh also faces the misdemeanor charges of second-degree reckless endangerment and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon stemming from when he swung a bat another person at a Hampton Bays party, according to a police press release.
Charlie Brice, 37, of Hampton Bays was arrested Sunday at 2:08 a.m. on Montauk Highway in Water Mill and charged with DWI and resisting arrest, both misdemeanors. Brice was stopped for almost running his car off the road when police discovered he was intoxicated, police said. He resisted being handcuffed and refused to comply with police orders, according to police narrative. While being driven to police headquarters, Brice also slipped one of his hands out of the cuffs, police said. According to his arrest reports, Brice is a teacher, though the district he teaches in was not provided by police.

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Criminal Possession of a Weapon
Maximilian Carter, 24, of Westhampton Beach was arrested last Thursday, Sept. 29 at 7:42 a.m. at his home on Rogers Avenue in Westhampton Beach on an outstanding bench warrant for not paying a fine. When Carter was arrested on the warrant, police saw that he had brass knuckles in plain sight.


Harassment
A 45-year-old woman from Islip told Town Police that while she was at the Quogue East Pub on Montauk Highway in East Quogue last Thursday, Sept. 29 at around 1:15 a.m., a man punched her in the head. The woman, who was highly intoxicated, told police that she was trying to break up a fight between a man and two other women when the man punched her in the head, according to police documentation. The man was gone before police arrived on scene, police said.


Southampton:  

A 29-year-old Southampton man is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail after being arrested for sodomizing a child under the age of 11, according to police. said Juan Sanchez was charged Friday with first-degree sexual abuse and first-degree criminal sex act, both felonies, as well as endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, in connection with the incident, which occurred a day prior. "No further information will be released due to the sensitive nature of the crime," police said.

A Southampton Village man awoke in the middle of the night on Sept. 24 to . Suffolk County Crime Stoppers is offering $5,000 for information leading to an arrest. The burglar fled when confronted at 3:10 a.m., but not before stealing Naval Academy memorabilia, a New York Giants football helmet signed by the 1987 Super Bowl team and other valuables, according to.

A 47-year-old man from Southampton was arrested Wednesday after threatening his former boss with a chrome knife, according to police. The manager of on County Road 39 told that Brian Ward came to the company’s rear workshop the morning of Sept. 28 and started a fight with several employees and threw items around. Ward was let go from his job the week before, police said. Ward also drew a chrome folding knife from his back pocket and pressed it against the neck of the manager and said, “I’m coming back for you,” according to police records. Ward was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony and second-degree menacing, a misdemeanor.


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