Crime & Safety

Crimes Nearby: Mom Set Garbage Can Ablaze with Kids Home

The following information was supplied by East End police departments. A criminal charge is only an accusation, and does not indicate convictions.

SOUTHAMPTON

• A man suspected in on Montauk Highway in Sagaponack was arrested shortly after the accident, according to police. said George Strobin, 43, of East Hampton, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident with an injury, a misdemeanor.

• Derek Quinn, 42, of Southampton, was arrested March 10 at 1:21 a.m. in Southampton at the intersection of Prospect Street West and North Sea Road, according to Southampton Town police. Quinn was charged with DWI, aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle in the third degree and speeding, police said. Officers said Quinn was additionally charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree for possessing a small quantity of heroin that was recovered from a Newport cigarette box on the passenger seat of his vehicle.

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WESTHAMPTON-HAMPTON BAYS

• A 911 call made late in the evening on March 8 brought to a Hampton Bays residence on Springville Road where 27-year-old Callie Hester was arrested at 11:50 p.m. and charged with fifth-degree arson, child endangerment and possession of a controlled substance, all misdemeanors. According to officers at the scene, Hester had set the contents of a small plastic garbage can on fire during a dispute at her home where children were present.

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RIVERHEAD

Following an East End Drug Task Force investigation, a . According to Riverhead Police, Robert Trent, 22, of Riverhead, was arrested shortly after noon, and charged with two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree. It was the in the area within the past week.
Following Monday's arrest, Trent was remanded to Suffolk County Jail and is due back in court on Friday.

• Two Riverhead men were arrested on March 3 after police said they were . Julian Wright, 38, and Terrance Latimore, 34, were arrested around 1:30 p.m. According to reports, police responded to a 911 call about people lying in the roadway. Upon police arrival, the two reportedly continued to lie and walk in the roadway. According to police reports, an officer attempted to interview Wright and Latimore, but both showed signs of an "extreme altered mental status consistent with the use of phencyclidine." Both were arrested on charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, loitering, and appearance in public under the influence of narcotics.

• Riverhead Police , who was already facing new charges of burglary and petit larceny in Nassau County, for reportedly robbing a Wading River bank nearly a month ago. Robert Fornal, 41, of Bethpage, is charged with robbery in the third degree, and according to police was arraigned in Riverhead Justice Court. He is due back in court on Thursday. Police reported that in Wading River and subsequently fled the scene of the crime.


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