Crimes Nearby: Drug Possession, Child Neglect, Assault

Riverhead

Samuel Guevara, 18, of Riverhead was arrested on July 26 in Bridgehampton and charged with third-degree assault and false personation, both misdemeanors. Police said Guevara punched a man in the face and head, giving him a broken nose. He then gave police a false name because of an existing warrant from Riverhead Town Police, according to a police report.

Tommy Giffin, 30, of Ridge was arrested on July 29 in Flanders and charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony, and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor. Giffin was stopped by police for a seat-belt violation and was allegedly found to have a large amount of marijuana and a smaller amount of hallucinogenic mushrooms in his possession.

Anthony Francis, 28, of Riverhead was arrested July 22 and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance. Police said they arrested Francis on a previous warrant after responding to a harassment call. Once at police headquarters, Francis reportedly was discovered to be in possession of crack cocaine. He was processed and held for arraignment.

Miller Place-Rocky Point

Paul Liotta, 42, of Rocky Point was arrested July 26 in Rocky Point and charged with petty larceny and fourth degree possession of credit card. Reports state Liotta allegedly possessed a stolen credit card.  

Deanna Santini, 22, of Sound Beach was arrested July 22 in Sound Beach and charged with second degree burglary. Reports state Santini allegedly entered a residence through a front door and stole property at approximately 3 p.m.    

Gerald Iberger, 55, of Rocky Point was arrested July 24 in Rocky Point and charged with public lewdness. Reports state Iberger allegedly exposed himself in front of 125 Broadway.

Westhampton-Hampton Bay

Southampton Town Police charged a 49-year-old woman from East Quogue with neglecting and imprisoning her children Saturday morning, according to police reports.

Police say they were called to a home on Acorn Path in East Quogue, and found that Debra Coppola was highly intoxicated and had been neglecting her six-year-old and ten-year-old sons. The older son was locked in the basement, though police could not say for how long.
Police say they had to call in extra officers to subdue and arrest Coppola, who was charged with second-degree unlawful imprisonment, endangering the welfare of a child and resisting arrest, all misdemeanors.

Child Protective Services intervened and further details on the incident were unavailable.

Southampton

William Stevens, 21, of Medford was arrested by Southampton Town Police on Sunday at 4:43 a.m. on Dune Road in Hampton Bays and charged with DWI and third-degree unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, both misdemeanors. Stevens jumped into an unmanned taxi in front of The Drift Inn in East Quogue and tried to drive away by making an illegal u-turn, police said.

An East Quogue man told on Saturday that his Dodge Viper was stolen. Police say it was a fabricated story meant to distract law enforcement from an earlier car accident.  According to police, Michael Calise, 40, of East Quogue drove his  off the exit ramp from Sunrise Highway leading into Hampton Bays Saturday at around 4:41 p.m. He was charged with DWI and falsely reporting an incident, both misdemeanors.

Brian Zeh, 43, of Southampton was arrested by Southampton Town police July 23 at 4:15 p.m. on the corner of Flying Point and Luther roads in Southampton and charged with leaving the scene of an accident with personal injuries, a misdemeanor, after he hit and seriously injured a cyclist and fled, according to police. On Friday at 4:20 p.m. at his home in Southampton, he was additionally charged with second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a misdemeanor. Zeh’s license has been suspended due to a prior alcohol-related conviction, police said.

Waldemar Sequen, 28, of Riverhead was arrested by Southampton Village police Tuesday at 6:27 a.m. on an outstanding Southampton Village Police Warrant for failure to appear for a prior aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the second degree charge, a misdemeanor. He was additionally charged with bail jumping in the second degree, a felony.

East Hampton

In separate instances, two out-of-town men were arrested after they allegedly tried to fill forged prescriptions at  in East Hampton on July 25.

 said Robert W. Kolkmeyer, 28, of Mastic Beach, and Chane Vazquez, 24, of Brooklyn, both gave the pharmacist fake orders, but they didn't know each other.

Kolkmeyer tried to get 480 10 mg Methadone pills, police said. Vazquez reportedly admitted that he also forged a prescription.

Kolkmeyer was charged with three felonies; second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, second-degree forgery, and first-degree identity theft. He was also charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor.

Vazquez was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Both men were arraigned in  the following day and held on $20,000 bail each.