Crimes Nearby: Man Stabbed by Brother, Police Say

• A Southampton man is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being stabbed by his brother multiple times on Saturday, according to police. Southampton Town police said the victim suffered severe bleeding and a collapsed lung after his brother, who resides with him at a Wiltshire Street home, broke into his bedroom and attacked him with a kitchen knife. Police said 22-year-old Maxwell Irwin used a ladder to enter the bedroom through a window around 6:44 a.m., then stabbed the victim numerous times in the chest and torso. The victim was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital. Irwin was arrested at 1:12 p.m. and charged with first-degree assault, a felony, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a misdemeanor. Police did not say what preceded the alleged attacked.

• A Southampton woman beat her ex-boyfriend with a high heel shoe and keyed his car early Sunday morning after a two-vehicle crash, according to police. Southampton Town police said 32-year-old Nicole J. Sobol was a passenger in a vehicle when it was involved in an accident with a second vehicle being driven by her ex. The crash — at North Sea Road and Majors Path — didn't cause any injuries, but Sobol got out and began to punch and kick her ex and hit him in the head and face with her footwear, police reported, adding that she then keyed his car. The victim suffered a laceration and bruising and was taken to Southampton Hospital, they said. Sobol was arrested at the scene at 2:41 a.m. and charged with second-degree assault, a felony, as well as fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and fourth-degree criminal mischief, both misdemeanors. 

• Detectives with the Southampton Town Police Department say they have arrested a Kansas electrical lineworker who assaulted a colleague. According to police, the men got into an altercation at Blue Collar Bar on County Road 39 on Nov. 7 around 11 p.m.
The lineworkers are among a group of employees of Nebraska company L.E. Meyers who were sent to Southampton for repairs in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, police said. Detectives interviewed the victim on Nov. 8 at Stony Brook Hospital. Blake A. Gurtler, 29, of Beattie, Kansas, was arrested Wednesday and charged with assault in the third degree, a misdemeanor.

• Southampton Town police announced Nov. 15 that an arrest was made Oct. 27 in connection to a burglary that took place over the summer in Bridgehampton. A Bridgehampton resident reported the burglary on Aug. 16. According to police, sometime between 7:30 and 11 p.m. that day, two laptops and a 52-inch flatscreen television were stolen. The burglar entered through a rear window, police said. The incident report stated that police found tracks to a trail leading to the beach and an awaiting vehicle. Police said that after several months of investigation, detectives arrested Danny Martinez, 26, of Central Islip, for burglary in the second degree, a felony.

• Kevin Street, 48, of Bridgehampton, was charged Nov. 16 with driving while impaired by drugs, a misdemeanor, after he was stopped on Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridgehampton at 9:52 p.m.  Cops said that after the traffic stop, Street attempted to flee the scene on foot, but was captured and additionally charged with resisting arrest, a misdemeanor.

•  Ernest H. Murphy Jr., 55, of Southampton, was arrested Nov. 19 at 10:46 p.m. and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, both felonies, as well as criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, a misdemeanor.  Southampton Village police said Murphy was arraigned and remanded to the Suffolk County Jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.