Crimes Nearby: Woman Found Guilty of Murder Again

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

Riverhead

• Kalila Taylor was again found guilty by a Suffolk County jury on Monday for killing Curtisha Morning 16 years ago. A jury deliberated for about three hours, said Suffolk County District Attorney Spokesman Bob Clifford, before convicting 35-year-old Taylor of second-degree murder. Taylor stabbed Morning, Riverhead High School's homecoming queen, over 90 times in a jealous rage over a boy. After she was originally found guilty in 1999, the case was thrown out in 2004 after an appellate court determined that a judge gave incorrect instructions to the convicting jury.

• A Flanders man was charged with driving while intoxicated with three children in his car. Southampton Town Police report that on Saturday at approximately 8:16 p.m., the department's patrol division stopped Otto Canel, 27, of Flanders, for speeding and failure to maintain his lane of travel. Upon further inspection, police alleged Canel, who was driving a gray 1995 Isuzu Trooper with Virginia license plates on County Road 94 in Riverside, was driving while intoxicated with three children under the age of 16 in the car. Canel was arrested and charged with DWI, as well as three counts of endangering the welfare of  child, and additional vehicle and traffic violations.

• Riverhead Town police arrested three individuals on Saturday night after setting up two Stop-DWI sobriety checkpoints on Roanoake Avenue, north of Northville Turnpike and on Peconic Avenue. Riverhead resident S. Martinez-Velasquez, 47, was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, and Gavin K. Glimm, 44, of Hampton Bays was also arrested and charged with DWI.
Police also Virgil Horsley, Jr., 25 of Riverhead and charged him with driving while ability impaired by drugs.

Southampton

• Santiago B. Moreno, 20, of Riverhead, was arrested June 14 at 3:57 p.m. and charged with petty larceny, a misdemeanor, at the Bridgehampton Commons, where he worked at a store as a cashier. Police said Moreno was arrested after being questioned regarding reward cards that he was keeping and spending rather than giving to customers who spent $50. Additionally, he confessed to the store’s loss prevention team that he stole a Valentine’s toy on Valentine’s Day and put a clearance sticker on a video game that was full price, according to the arrest report.  He was released on a field appearance ticket.

• Veronica C. Lopez, 19, of Riverhead, was arrested June 14 at 3:57 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Commons and charged with petty larceny. Police said Lopez was questioned by a store’s loss prevention team about several $5 rewards cards she redeemed that should have been given to customers who spent $50. Lopez confessed to keeping and redeeming 10 cards, according to the arrest report.

• Kevin Sebestian Street, 47, of Bridgehampton, was arrested July 28 at 8:02 p.m. on Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridgehampton and charged with obstructing governmental administration in the second degree, a misdemeanor, and disorderly conduct, a violation. Police said Street was a passenger in a vehicle that police pulled over and he interfered by refusing to stay in the vehicle and walking around, obstructing traffic.

North Fork

• Joseph P. Ricketts, 48, of Franklin Square was charged with criminal possession of stolen property and petit larceny on June 2 at 10:15 p.m., after he took keys of a police officer’s personal vehicle while being transported home, police said. Police transported Ricketts, who was intoxicated, to his residence on Bray Avenue in Laurel, when a few hours later, at tour change, one of the officers was unable to locate the keys to his personal vehicle. That officer responded to Ricketts’ residence to interview him, and it was revealed that Ricketts stole the keys from a police bag and had them on his person, police said. Ricketts was arrested and held overnight.

Westhampton-Hampton Bays

• Dominique A. Huett, 30, of Dallas, Texas, was arrested July 1 at 2:29 a.m., in Hampton Bays and charged with DWI and resisting arrest, both misdemeanors. Police said Huett was swerving westbound over the double yellow line on Montauk Highway East and she refused to pull over. When she finally did stop, she sped into a driveway of a business then fled on foot, police said. When she was apprehended, “her breath smelled highly of an alcoholic beverage” and she refused to be handcuffed, the arrest report states. Huett was additionally charged with refusing a chemical test and multiple vehicle and traffic infractions.

• Gail K. Macri, 50, of Hampton Bays, was arrested June 26 at 9:47 p.m. and charged with assault in the second degree, a felony, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, a misdemeanor. Police said Macri used a glass coaster and glass candle jar to strike a victim.

• Daniel D. Matos-Gonzalez, 21, of Hampton Bays was arrested June 30 at 10:23 p.m. on Canal Road and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree, both misdemeanors, as well as driving at an unreasonable speed and making an improper turn, both traffic infractions. Police said he was stopped after making an unsafe turn into the Meschutt Beach parking lot and found to have a suspended license and several pills. He was taken to police headquarters in Hampton Bays for processing.