Crime & Safety

Cops Find Cocaine, Pills on Montauk Visitors

Two men were found with cocaine next to the Memory Motel in Montauk.

The following information was supplied by the East Hampton Town Police Department. A criminal charge is only an accusation and does not indicate guilt.

• Two men were arrested on drug charges outside of the Memory Motel in Montauk in the early morning hours of Sept. 1.

Police said they saw two men standing under a spotlight on the side of the motel on Montauk Highway at about 2:30 a.m. Police confronted the men, and noticed clear plastic baggies with a white powdery substance in their hands, they said. The substances later tested positive for cocaine.

Matthew W. Hull, 24, of St. James, was placed under arrest, and and a search found a second clear bag containing a white powdery substance in his pants pocket, police said. He was charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony. The other man, a 25-year-old from San Francisco, Calif., was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor.

Later that morning, Hull was released on $1,500 bail, and the man from California was released on $500 bail.

• A 23-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested on three misdemeanor drug charges after police saw him urinating in public in Montauk on Sept. 1. At about 1:55 a.m., police approached the man and asked him to identify himself. When he reached into his pant pocket for his identification, he removed a metal capsule, but then tried to conceal. The officer put him in handcuffs as a safety precaution, and search the capsule to find a mix of pills, later identified as Alprazolam, Temazepam, and Lubiprostone. He was charged with three counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and one count of possessing controlled substances outside of the original container, a violation of the Public Health Law. He was also issued a town code summons for public urination. Released on $100 bail and an appearance ticket, he will be arraigned on Sept. 5.


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