Crimes Nearby: Driver Turns Himself in After Accident

SOUTHAMPTON

• A man pulled over in Southampton Village early Saturday morning was found not only to be driving drunk with a suspended license — but also unlawfully in possession of a loaded handgun, according to police. said that Joe Johnson, 38, of Southampton, was charged with two felony counts and one misdemeanor count of criminal possession of a weapon around 3:36 a.m. Saturday on Hill Street after he was arrested for DWI and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree, both misdemeanors. Johnson had a .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol, police said.

• The unlicensed driver who fled the scene of a North Sea car crash last week that injured a passenger, toppled a tree and totaled the truck he was driving turned himself in to authorities three days later, police said. arrested Benjamin Walker, 34, of Hampton Bays, who was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle and leaving the scene of an accident causing bodily injury after he appeared with legal counsel at police headquarters April 19 in Hampton Bays to answer charges. The arrest stemmed from a at about 6 p.m. on Millstone Brook Road in North Sea. Police said Walker had lost his license due to a previous DWI conviction. After Walker fled the scene of the accident, in which the truck flipped over and caused a tree to uproot and fall to the ground, police enlisted a New York State K-9 unit as well as a Suffolk police helicopter which was overheard by neighbors in the West Neck area of North Sea. At the time of the incident and subsequent search, Walker was not located.

RIVERHEAD

• Riverhead Town police are investigating a report of criminal mischief and larceny from vending machines after three suspects allegedly entered the Laundromat in the T.J. Maxx Plaza on March 29 at approximately 5 p.m. and broke into two vending machines. The three allegedly removed an undetermined amount of coins and cash and fled the store with the proceeds, police say. The Riverhead Detective Division is investigating; anyone with information is asked to call 631-727-4500.

• A Babylon man was arrested Friday night after then proceeded to flee the scene of the accident. Timothy Corcoran, 43, was later found in the parking lot of the Flanders McDonald’s, police said.  Corcoran was arrested and transported to the Riverhead Town Police Department, where he was held on charges of driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident.

•  as part of a 10-month East End Drug Task Force investigation.
According to the office of District Attorney Thomas Spota, William Turner, 35, and Shana Gilmore, 32, were arrested on April 20. The task force reportedly found an AK-47 rifle and a short-barrelled shotgun in the home, and prescription pills and cocaine in other homes searched as part of the investigation.
Turner was charged with two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree and two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree. Gilmore was charged with conspiracy in the fourth degree.

NORTH FORK

• James Lawrence, 35, of Greenport, turned himself into on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. on an arrest warrant issued last week, after police had been investigating reports of Lawrence looking into the first floor windows of several different houses on First Street in the village during the early morning hours of April 7, police said. Lawrence, who has been arrested and charged in the past for offences such as public lewdness and burglary in the village, was released on his own recognizance and will return to court on a later date, police said.