Crimes Nearby: Hampton Bays Middle School Teacher Faces Rape Charge

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

Riverhead

• Four were charged with allegedly stealing from a Tanger store; the second grand larceny incident at Tanger in Riverhead this week.

According to Riverhead police, a call came in at 4:03 Saturday afternoon about an alleged larceny at the Gap Outlet at Tanger. Four suspects, Preisila Alvarez, Lucia Gomez, Carlos Moran-Flores, and Jorge Mauricio-Astudillo were arrested and charged with grand larceny in the fourth degree, a felony, after police said they stole approximately $2,000 worth of merchandise from the store.

Just two days earlier, a Coram man was arrested and charged with fourth-degree grand larceny after police said he stole jeans from a Tanger store. According to Riverhead town police, Norman Oates, 19, of Coram, was arrested at 1:35 p.m. on Thursday after taking $2,280 worth of merchandise from the True Religion store at Tanger. Oates was processed and held for arraignment, police said.

Westhampton-Hampton Bays

• Suffolk County police have arrested a Hampton Bays Middle School substitute teacher who they say had a sexual encounter with a 16-year-old student earlier this year while working as a substitute teacher in a different school district.
Allan Concepcion, 38, of Mt. Sinai, was working at Eastport South Manor High School when the alleged incident took place. He was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with third-degree rape, a felony, and endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.

Southampton

• For weeks, someone had been shooting paintballs from a moving vehicle at businesses along County Road 39, and Southampton Town police say that on April 22 they caught up with him.  

Detectives were alerted at 5:55 p.m. that a vehicle may have been involved in the shootings, and police stopped the driver on Sunrise Highway in Hampton Bays, according to authorities. The driver, Terrance M. Wahl, 36, of Patchogue, was found with a loaded paintball gun in his car, police said. He was placed under arrest and charged with two counts of third-degree criminal tampering, a misdemeanor.

Shinnecock Hardware, Kazdin Pools & Spas, and Suburban Auto were among the businesses that were targeted for no apparent reason, according to Southampton Town police.