Crimes Nearby: Police Accuse Man with Machete of Terrorism

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

Riverhead

• A man with a machete was arrested on a terrorism charge at the Tanger Outlet Center in Riverhead, police said.

Riverhead Town police said they received a call that a man with a machete in his backpack said he wanted to hurt people and himself at about 12:45 p.m.

John Medina, 32, of Mastic, was arrested and charged with making a terroristic threat, a felony, police said, as well as criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, a misdemeanor.

Following his arraignment, he was remanded to the Suffolk County Correctional Facility.

• A pair of local teens were arrested after reportedly partying in a couple of vacant Flanders houses last weekend.   

According to Southampton police, the duo – as well as several others, who escaped before police could break up the party – were partying in a vacant bungalow on Peconic Trail when word got out that a bigger house in the area was also open to party in. The get-together shifted, police said, to Huntington Lane, where a neighbor alerted the homeowner that activity was going on in his house.   

Westhampton-Hampton Bays

• The Southampton Police Department is looking for a man caught on camera stealing money and various other items from Hampton Nursery in Hampton Bays.

According to police, the man is described as white, medium build, and approximately 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet. He was wearing dark-colored sneakers, jeans, a long sleeve top along with gloves and a ski mask at the time of the burglary, police said.

Southampton

• When a Sag Harbor woman was pulled over early Sunday and charged with a felony for driving drunk with a child passenger, her husband interfered in her arrest and was arrested himself, according to police.

Southampton Town police said 53-year-old Monica Taylor was driving a 2008 Land Rover southbound on Millstone Road when an officer pulled her over for failing to stay in her lane. She was found to be drunk behind the wheel, police said, and because she had a 14-year-old passenger in the car, the driving while intoxicated charge was elevated to a felony under Leandra's Law.

Her husband, John Taylor, 52, repeatedly tried to interfere in the arrest and was charged with obstructing governmental administration in the second degree, a misdemeanor, police said.

In addition to aggravated DWI with a child passenger 15 years of age or younger, Monica Taylor was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.