Crimes Nearby: Victim Wakes Up, Confronts Robber

WESTHAMPTON-HAMPTON BAYS

• A Hampton Bays man was arrested on a host of charges, including burglary, on Sept. 11. According to police, Wayne Sapiane, 59, was picked up at around 6:30 p.m. on Squiretown Road after his friend called 911 and reported him for burglarizing his home on the same street. When police stopped Sapiane they reportedly found marijuana in his possession. They said he was in violation of his parole. Sapiane was charged with second-degree burglary, a felony, second-degree criminal impersonation, a misdemeanor, unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation, and parole violation.

• A resident on Stewart Avenue was robbed in his home by someone he knew in the late evening hours of Sept. 9. According to police the victim was sleeping in his bed at around 11 p.m. when the thief entered his home and stole somewhere in the vicinity of $1,000 from his shorts. The victim woke up and confronted the robber, who punched him in the face and grappled with him in the bedroom. The suspect eventually fled the home in an unknown direction with the money. Police responded and the case is still being investigated.

NORTH FORK

• A Laurel man was arrested Sunday after police said he shot a victim in the face with an air rifle. According to Southold Town police, Brayan Cahueque, 23, was arrested at 4 p.m. in Laurel after police said he shot another 23-year-old-man during a fight, striking him in the face and causing a large laceration. The victim was taken to Peconic Bay Medical Center for treatment of his injury. Cahueque was arrested outside his home and charged with assault in the second degree, a felony, police said. 

• A man was arrested after police said he ripped the gold chain off a man's neck, punched him in the face, and fled from authorities in Greenport early Thursday morning.

According to Southold Town police, a call was received at 12:56 a.m. from a man in the Adams Street parking lot in the the village, who said a man had forcibly ripped the chain from his neck, punched him, and fled in a vehicle. Responding officers broadcast a description of the suspect and his vehicle to all sectors, and the car was later spotted in the Peconic area.

Three police units that attempted to stop the vehicle were led on a brief chase until the suspect crashed his vehicle on Rt. 25 in Cutchogue, police said. The car was reportedly stolen from Southampton Town.

• Travon E. Pettaway, 20, of Southampton, was arrested Sept. 9 for allegedly throwing a cobblestone brick through the windshield and driver's side window of a 2013 Mercedes ML 350 while a woman was sitting in it on Windward Way on Aug. 30 at about 10 p.m., according to police. The victim called 911 and also said Pettaway had punched her in the stomach and smashed her iPad. When he was arrested on Sept. 9, he was charged with third-degree criminal mischief a felony, reckless endangerment in the second degree and menacing in the third degree, both misdemeanors, as well as harassment in the second degree, a violation. 

EAST HAMPTON

• Christopher S. Pulido, 23, of East Hampton, is being held on $7,000 cash or $14,000 bond at the Suffolk County jail in Riverside after allegedly violating a court order during a domestic dispute on Sept. 6. He was charged with criminal contempt in the first degree, a felony, criminal mischief in the fourth degree, a misdemeanor, and two counts of second-degree harassment, a violation, on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road in Springs at about 11:50 p.m.