Crimes Nearby: Homeless Teen Charged After Shooting

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

RIVERHEAD

• A homeless 17-year-old man was arrested after a shooting on Raynor Avenue in Riverhead on Monday night, police said.

According to Riverhead police, officers responded at 8:20 p.m. to Raynor Avenue, where an alleged assault was in progress. Upon arrival, police found a 52-year-old woman had been shot. Police said her injuries weren’t life-threatening.

Police said the teen ran from the scene and was tracked to an Osborn Avenue residence with the help of a Riverhead police K-9 unit.

• A man with a gunshot wound to the foot told police he'd been a robbery victim, but later changed his tune, police said.

According to Southampton Town police, a 24-year-old Riverside man was arrested at police headquarters in Hampton Bays and charged with falsely reporting an incident in the third degree, a misdemeanor, on  May 15 at 2:15 p.m.

WESTHAMPTON-HAMPTON BAYS

• A turf war over horseshoe crabs led to the arrest of a Flanders fisherman on Sunday.

Southampton Town police charged John Lombardi, 60, with felony criminal mischief after police said he slashed the tires of two fellow commercial fishermen's cars.

According to police, the two victims hid in the bushes on Sunday, near the Point Road boat ramp in Flanders, and saw Lombardi use a knife to slash their tires at about 7:30 p.m. Police said the fishermen, a Flanders man and a Hampton Bays man, confronted Lombardi and kept him at the scene until police arrived.

SOUTHAMPTON

• Claude L. Eleazer, 34, of Southampton, was arrested May 18 at 5:29 p.m. and charged with a felony count of DWI, among other charges, after he was pulled over for driving at more than twice the speed limit, according to police.

Police said Eleazer speeded past a patrol officer on Tuckahoe Lane in a 1998 Dodge Durango, going 62 miles per hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone. When the officer attempted to stop Eleazer, he continued to speed onto Montauk Highway and then onto Middle Gate Road, where he finally stopped, according to police. Eleazer refused to take an Intoxilyzer test — a breath test to determine his blood alcohol content — according to police.

The DWI charge was elevated to a felony due to a previous DWI conviction in 2011, police said. He was also charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree, also a felony; and unlawfully fleeing from a police officer, reckless driving and  aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the second degree, all misdemeanors. He was arraigned then released on $400 bail and the Durango was seized under the Suffolk County Vehicle Seizure Law for repeat DWI offenders.

• A driver and her passenger did not take well to being pulled over predawn on Sunday in Hampton Bays, according to police.

A pair of arrest reports by Southampton Town police said that when the driver was finally put in the back of a police cruiser, she kicked out the rear window — adding to the charges leveled against her.

Police said Nia Hunter, 26, of the Shinnecock Reservation, was pulled over at the intersection of Montauk Highway East and Peconic Road at 2:43 a.m. for failing to stay in a lane and for a window tint violation when she was found to be drunk. According to the arrest report, when told she was under arrest, Hunter walked away. Then, when she was grabbed, she pulled away and refused to place her hands behind her back, the report states.