Crime & Safety
Crimes Nearby: Driver in Double Fatal Crash Arraigned
Also in East End crime news, Crime Stoppers searches for suspect in theft at Realty office.
Recent crimes news from elsewhere on the East End
Riverhead
• Robert Beodeker, the man whose car struck and killed two pedestrians on the Meadowbrook Parkway on March 4, was arraigned Thursday at First District Court in Hempstead.
According to the Nassau County district attorney's office, Beodeker, 50, of Aquebogue, was arraigned before Judge Tammy Robbins on a grand jury indictment charging him with aggravated vehicular homicide and other felonies.
According to police, Beodeker was driving his GMC pickup truck southbound on the Meadowbrook Parkway near the Southern State Parkway when he struck a disabled Nissan Maxima, as well as two pedestrians that were standing near the vehicle. The two pedestrians, identified as Edward Ross, 65, of North Bellmore and John Elder, 76, of Freeport, were pronounced dead at the scene.
Beodeker, who was a dean at Suffolk County Community College, was arrested and initially charged with reckless driving and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. Charges were later upgraded to manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and driving while impaired by drugs. He remains in jail on bail.
Beodeker faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted and is due back in court April 30.
• Mark Goode, 40, of Mastic, was charged on April 13 with criminal contempt in the first degree, a felony, after police said they responded to a call regarding harassment in Riverside. Police further charged Goode with harassment in the second degree, a violation.
Westhampton-Hampton Bays
• Crime Stoppers and Southampton Town police are asking the public to help locate a man who allegedly stole from South Fork Realty, located at 143 Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays, on April 5. According to police, the man walked into the realty agency and took cameras and two checks and then fled. The following day, police said, he attempted to cash one of the checks at the Suffolk County National Bank in Center Moriches.
East Hampton
• Matthew D. Santich, 51, was arrested in his Montauk home on April 6 after an alleged domestic dispute. He was charged with second-degree strangulation, a felony, fourth-degree criminal mischief, a misdemeanor, and second-degree harassment, a violation. No further information was released. Justice Cahill released him on $2,000 bail.
