Crimes Nearby: After Sex with Teen, Man Gets 5 Years

Riverhead

• A West Hempstead man who was caught having sex with a teenage boy in the Shoreham-Wading River woods last August was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison.

A grand jury indicted David Boutin last September, after a policeman searching for a stolen motorbike on a remote utility access road caught Boutin in the car with a 13-year-old boy.

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

Southampton

• Sag Harbor Village police arrested a Queens couple at their Ozone Park home Friday morning on felony larceny charges, alleging that they stole blank checks from a victim in the village and cashed in.

According to arrest reports, during April 2012 the couple, 40-year-old Surajdyal S. "Sam" Sukraj and 35-year-old Nina H. Sukraj, stole 19 blanks checks from a Union Street residence. The checks were written out to "Cash" and then cashed against the couple's joint checking account, police said. They reaped $54,600 this way, the reports stated. The Sukrajes each face a count of second-degree grand larceny.

• A Noyac resident was scammed out of $350 on June 6 after she answered her cellphone and agreed to wire the money to a man who told her that he was going to hold her sister hostage. The woman told police that the man told her that her sister struck a car that was parked with his nephew sitting on the hood and that the child fell off and was badly injured. He then told her that he would hold his sister hostage unless she wired him money Western Union. 

On the same day, a similar incident happened to another Noyac resident, only the resident was told by the scammer that his mother was involved in a car accident. He told police before paying the money, he called his mother to find that she had been home all day. 

Police are investigating both incidents, and have warned against similar scams.