Crimes Nearby: East Hampton Man Held on $50K Bail

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

Recent crime and courts news from elsewhere on the East End:

EAST HAMPTON

• , 23, of East Hampton, is being held in lieu of $50,000 cash bail or $100,000 bond at the Suffolk County Jail in Riverside, following his arrest on charges of felony driving while intoxicated, driving without an Interlock ignition device and with a suspended license. Police said he hit a tree in a 2000 Toyota on Spring Close Highway, near Montauk Highway, on June 3 at about 12:10 a.m. When police arrived, he was outside the car, but the keys were still in the ignition and the engine was running. Police found that his license had been revoked on Jan. 12, 2012, for aggravated DWI and had not been restored. Neither Tacuri or the passenger, Luis Jarama-Zhinin, the registered owner, were injured.

• Felipe Marin, 21, of Montauk, was charged with drug possession on Monday morning after police stopped him in the Montauk precinct parking lot on South Embassy Street for carrying an open bottle of Corona beer. The officer also smelled marijuana on him. As Marin was emptying his pockets, police said he threw a plastic ZipLock baggy, with a green leafy substance in it, to the ground. Police took him into the precinct and while conducting a search, said they found a small orange glassine envelope with a white powdery substance in his coin pocket of his pants. The substances field tested positive for marijuana and cocaine. He was charged with seventh-degree possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. He was released on $100 station house bail.

• Three young men — 22-, 21- and 19-year-olds from East Hampton — were arrested on criminal trespass charges after they were found on a shrink-wrapped boat inside a storage facility on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton on June 11. They were charged with misdemeanors and will be arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court at a later date.

RIVERHEAD

• Desmond J. Bright, 31, of Flanders, was arrested June 7 at 9:10 a.m. in Riverside and charged with criminal impersonation in the second degree and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the second degree, both misdemeanors, as well as being an unlicensed driver and littering, both violations. Police said Bright was pulled over for throwing garbage out the window while driving on Route 24 and misidentified himself to an officer.

WESTHAMPTON-HAMPTON BAYS

• Fredin A. Vasquez, 44, of Hampton Bays, was arrested June 17 at 2:13 a.m. on Montauk Highway West in Hampton Bays and charged with aggravated DWI, a misdemeanor. Police said Vasquez failed to maintain his lane and pulled into a parking lot without signaling. Further investigation shows he was intoxicated, according to the arrest report. He was additionally charged with moving from lane unsafely and unsafe turn without a signal, both infractions.

NORTH FORK

• Following a call from another car driver, a Greenport man was arrested Thursday night by Southold police after they said he was driving under the influence of drugs on Route 25 in Mattituck. According to Southold police, a motorist called police around 7:30 p.m. to report an erratic driver, heading westbound on the road while crossing over into the eastbound lane.
Southold Police responded and reported witnessing the driver, 48-year-old Kenneth T. Finne, cross over the double line. Police said he was found to be impaired by drugs.

• Kevin Smith, 26, of Greenport, was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance on June 16 at 2:35 a.m. on Adams Street in Greenport. An officer on patrol noticed Smith’s hand in his pocket and when he asked Smith to take his hand out of his pocket, the officer found a small brown vial with a white powdery substance in it, police said. The officer checked the pocket and found Smith had poured the powder, which was tested later and found to be cocaine, into his pocket, police said. Smith was arrested, processed and released on cash bail with a later court date.