Crimes Nearby: DWI and Drug Arrests On the Twin Forks

A round-up of recent notable arrests and incidents from other areas on the East End:

SOUTHAMPTON

• A 48-year-old Noyac woman backed into a police officer’s car Dec. 14 after she tried to avoid questions about a loose dog on her property, according to police. Officers knocked on the door of Maria Eftimiades’ Sylvan Lane house at around 7 p.m. Dec. 14 to work on an investigation about a loose dog. The 48-year-old woman left her house through another door, got into her car and tried to back down the driveway, even though officers signaled at her to stop. Eftimiades backed into one of the police officer’s patrol cars, according to the arrest report. She was arrested at her home on Sylvan Lane and charged with second-degree menacing, a misdemeanor, and unsafe backing and failure to comply, both violations.

• A 48-year-old Southampton man told police that between Dec. 12 and Dec. 15 someone broke the lock off of the shed on his Magee Street property and stole $5,000 worth of power tools and car tires, according to an incident report. The man left for vacation in Mexico Dec. 3, had someone check the lock on the shed Dec. 12, and then discovered it broken when he returned to his home Dec. 15, according to police.

• A 48-year-old Water Mill man who owns a landscaping company police that on Dec. 13 at around midnight someone went into his building on Head of Pond Road and stole two backpack leaf blowers, together worth $200. The man told police he saw the hasp ripped off the building’s southeast door, according to an incident report. Officers will review the man’s surveillance cameras.

• A 61-year-old man from Sag Harbor told police that sometime between Nov. 9 and Dec. 13 someone went into his Crescent Street home and stole three boxes containing personal documents, including his passport, a mortgage deed, bank statements and investment statements. Police are investigating.

• Yimmy Alcivar, 31, of Southampton, was arrested Dec. 18 at 1 a.m. and charged with second-degree burglary, a felony, and third-degree menacing, a misdemeanor.

WESTHAMPTON-HAMPTON BAYS

• Shannon Hofsiss, 25, of Riverhead, was arrested on Dec. 16 and charged with DWI, felony unlicensed driving, and a slew of driving violations after Southampton Town Police said the woman drove around closed road signs in Westhampton. Hofsiss was seen driving around the signs at the corner of County Road 31 and County Road 104 at about 3:36 a.m. on Dec. 16, according to a police report. Police said they the driver and determined she was driving drunk.
She was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle, a felony, second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle, a misdemeanor, open container of alcohol, driving without a seat belt and failure to obey traffic control devices, all violations.

• Carlos Ortiz Salguero, 24, a landscaper in East Quogue whose hometown is unknown, was arrested Dec. 15 at 1:17 a.m. at the corner of Ponquogue Avenue and Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays and charged with aggravated DWI, a misdemeanor. Police said Salguero drove into a parked car.

• Charity Aupperlee, 36, Hampton Bays, was arrested Dec. 17 at 2:05 a.m. at on Montauk Highway West in Hampton Bays and charged with second-degree obstructing governmental administration, a misdemeanor. Police said Aupperlee was yelling at officers while they were dealing with a violent suicidal subject at the bar, and video and audio taping the incident.

NORTH FORK

• Christopher Giardiello, 22, and an 18-year-old woman, both of Manorville, were charged with drug offenses on Dec. 9 at 12:44 p.m. in Mattituck after Southold Town police stopped Giardiello for a traffic violation as he drove a 2008 Ford Mustang westbound on Sound Avenue in Mattituck, police said. During the stop, police determined that Giardiello was driving with a suspended license. They noticed an odor of marijuana in the vehicle, police said. After a search of the vehicle, police found two small bags of marijuana and Xanax pills hidden inside the car, police said. Giardiello was charged with second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of marijuana. The 18-year-old was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana.

RIVERHEAD

• An unemployed Central Islip man was hit in the head by an unknown object in the parking lot of the Valero gas station in Riverside Dec. 16, according to a Southampton Town police report. The man told police that someone hit him in the head with a solid black object at around 9:06 p.m. He told police he didn’t fall down, but saw the man he believes hit him run up Peconic Avenue toward Riverhead Town. The man was wearing a black winter coat and black hat, according to the report. The Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance transported the Central Islip man to Peconic Bay Medical Center for a cut on his head. Police said they will use gas station surveillance cameras in their investigation.