Town Police Logs: Two Charged with Felony DWI

The East Hampton Town police reported the following arrests on March 7:

DWI

Michael A. Migliaccio, 57, of Montauk, was charged with aggravated felony DWI in Montauk on March 2. At about 8 p.m., police said they saw a 1990 Mercedes Benz crossed over the white line on Montauk Highway and drive on the shoulder for about 100 feet, until turning left onto South Emery.

Police followed him, logging various traffic infractions, such as failure to stop and signal. They also paced him traveling over 55 m.p.h., until he was pulled over on Edgemere Street near South Edison Extension. He reportedly failed his field sobriety tests and was arrest at 8:15 p.m. His blood alcohol allegedly measured over .18, the threahold for aggravated DWI.

His car was impounded as a result of a prior conviction in May 2005. Unable to post $5,000 bail, he was turned over to the Suffolk County Sheriff's office to be held at the county jail.

John T. Bayles, 32, of Brooklyn, was charged with felony driving while intoxicated, after he was pulled over for allegedly speeding in a Toyota Prius in Montauk on Sunday at 1:30 a.m. Police said they clocked him traveling nearly 75 m.p.h. in a 40 m.p.h. zone as he headed east on Montauk Highway. Police also said the Prius crossed over the double-yellow line, before he was stopped two to three miles west of Lincoln Road.

After performing poorly on three field sobriety tests, he was placed under arrest and taken to headquarters. Police then learned that Bayles had a previous DWI conviction in September 2006, and impounded the Prius. Bayles refused to submit to an Intoxilyzer test, according to police. Following arraignment later that morning before East Hampton Town Justice Catherine A. Cahill, he was released on $1,000 bail.

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