PD: Young Man Arrested For Shooting Air Rifle at House Was Aiming at Puddle

A 20-year-old East Hampton man who used a pellet rifle to vandalize the house across the street from a friend's place told officers he was aiming at a puddle of water, according to Middletown Polcie.

On June 18 at 6:04 p.m., police were called to a home on Newfield Street about teenagers across the street shooting a rifle at a man's house, according to the report. Police say the teens went back into the house across the street. 

The report says the man and his wife were inside when they heard a "plinking" sound five or six times, got into his car with binoculars and saw James Sadlowski, 20, of Bevin Boulevard, East Hampton, pointing a rifle at something in the backyard across the street. 

The report says Sadlowski and his friend admitted to having a pellet gun and shooting it at a puddle at the end of the driveway, then stopped when he "heard a noise that sounded like it may have hit something more solid than the puddle." 

The report says the victim's home had some cracked vinyl siding that was damaged allegedly by the pellet gun. He was charged with third-degree criminal mischief.