Crimes Nearby: Driver in Fatal Hit-and-Run Sentenced

Recent notable crime news and arrests from around the East End:

East Hampton

• At his sentencing Wednesday morning, Edward L. Orr, who hit and killed a pedestrian in Amagansett in October, said he wished he had listened to the advice of his attorney and his parents.

Suffolk County Criminal Court Judge William Condon sentenced him to 2 to 6 years in state prison. The 31-year-old man can expect to serve about 5 of those years due to his prior felony conviction.

"He begged me repeatedly to turn myself in," Orr said of his attorney, Gordon Ryan, who represented him at the proceeding in Suffolk County Criminal Court. "You already made a big mistake, don't make it any worse," was the counseling Orr said he received.

• Kelvin Delacruz, 43, of Montauk, was arrested after he allegedly violated an order of protection during a domestic dispute on April 15.  Police responded to an apartment on Duryea Avenue around 4:30 p.m., but Delacruz was gone. He was located at S. Emery Street in Montauk around 5:15 p.m., and placed under arrest.

He was charged with first-degree criminal contempt, a felony, second-degree criminal trespass and acting in a manner injurious to a child under 17, both misdemeanors, and second-degree harassment, a violation.

Justice Lisa R. Rana arraigned him, setting bail at $10,000 cash or $20,000 bond. He is being held at the Suffolk County jail in Riverside.

Riverhead

• A search warrant led to a drug bust in Wading River on Wednesday, police said. According to Riverhead Town police, ongoing complaints from residents of the Wading River community led to an investigation by the East End Drug Task Force, in conjunction with the Suffolk County Emergency Services Unit, Riverhead Town C.O.P.E and K-9 units.

Police said the search at 49 Overhill Rd. led to the recovery of marijuana packaged for sale, cash and weapons, including a .22 caliber semi-automatic pistol, a .22 caliber assault rifle, a billy club and brass knuckles. Also recovered were scales and packaging materials, police said.

Police arrested three residents of the address, including a 55-year-old man who was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation; he was released on an appearance ticket. James Brewer, 22, was charged with criminal use of drug paraphernalia in the second degree, a misdemeanor. He was also released on an appearance ticket.

Justin Brewer, 19, was charged with three counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, both misdemeanors, and criminal possession of a firearm and criminal possession of marijuana in the third degree, both felonies. Brewer was arraigned in Riverhead Town justice court and remanded to the Suffolk County Correctional Facility on $10,000 bail.

• A homeless man was arrested after a police investigation early Sunday morning that involved a taxi and a K-9 unit, according to authorities.  Riverhead Town police said a call came in at 3:59 Sunday morning from a Horton Avenue resident who said that a person had forcibly entered the residence and taken a television set.

The suspect was reported to have fled the scene along with another subject in a Hampton Town Taxi.  Patrol officers located the taxi a short while later on Flanders Road in Riverside when the taxi driver attempted to leave the area, police said. Following a traffic stop on Riverleigh Avenue in Riverside, the driver of the taxi, Howard Ferebee, 28, of Riverhead, was arrested and charged with burglary in the second degree, robbery in the second degree, and criminal mischief in the third degree, all of which are felonies, police said. He was taken into custody.

The passenger in the taxi, Tremel Kelly, 20, who police said is undomiciled, allegedly fled the scene on foot. Kelly was located a short time later with the assistance of a K-9 unit, hiding in a nearby hotel room at the Budget Host Inn in Riverside, police said. He was arrested and charged with burglary in the second degree, robbery in the second degree, and criminal facilitation in the fourth degree, a misdemeanor. Police said he was taken into custody without incident. Proceeds from the robbery were located in the taxi.

Westhampton-Hampton Bays

• Southampton Town police have slapped a felony charge on a 23-year-old Hampton Bays man after a Mac laptop went missing from a car parked outside Buckley's Inn Between in Hampton Bays last week. Police said Robert E. Miller was charged with grand larceny in the fourth degree on April 17 at 10 p.m. Police said the laptop has since been returned to its owner.