Crimes Nearby: Guatamalan Man Confesses to Rape, Murder, Authorities Say

Editor's Note: The following information was supplied by East End police departments. A criminal charge is an accusation and does not indicate convictions.

Recent arrests and criminal court news from elsewhere on the East End:

RIVERHEAD

• A man after Mirian Garcia, 29, was found dead last week behind the Department of Motor Vehicles in Riverhead confessed to strangling the victim with a belt after raping her, according to authorities. Suffolk County homicide detectives arrested Guillermo Alfonso Alvarado-Ajcuc, 21, of Riverhead for the alleged murder of Mirian Garcia, 29 on Wednesday at approximately 6 p.m.  Alvarado-Ajcuc, a Guatamalan resident who is in the United States without a green card, was charged with one count of murder in the second degree and rape in the first degree. He was held overnight before his arraignment at the Riverhead Town Court Thursday morning.

• Tomas Jonas Lopez-Giron, 35, of Riverhead was charged with second-degree attempted assault, second-degree menacing and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon on May 9 at 8:40 a.m., after police responded to a report of a dispute at an East Marion jobsite, police said. A cement truck driver told police that a Riverhead contractor, later identified as Lopez-Giron, first threatened him with a hammer and then came at him with a machete, police said. Although the victim did not receive any injuries, the machete did cut through his jacket and left marks on his arm, police said.

WESTHAMPTON-HAMPTON BAYS

• New York State police reporting that they charged an East Hampton man with DWI and various traffic violations after they say he tried to leave the scene of an accident on Sunrise Highway near the Flanders Road exit.  Police said that after they were flagged down by a motorist involved in a crash, Julio Parapi, 32, tried to drive off when officers attempted to stop him. Police said Parapi "stumbled out of his car."

• On May 11, Bryce Danowski, 18, of Flanders, was charged with third-degree criminal mischief, a class-E felony, after police reported that on West Montauk Highway at 10:46 p.m. He was transported to police headquarters in Hampton Bays and processed for arraignment the following day.

NORTH FORK

• Joshua Georges, 30, of Jamesport, was charged with petty larceny on May 12 at 2:20 a.m., after he drove into the rear parking lot of in Mattituck, where he physically removed the sides to a utility trailer and then drove off with it, police said. Georges was found later in the day at his residence with the trailer parts in his back yard, police said. Georges was arrested and transported to police headquarters in Peconic for processing.

• Carrie McCabe, 38, of Cutchogue, was charged with DWI, expired registration and unregistered vehicle on May 13 at 7:24 p.m., after police responded to a call of an erratic driver operating a vehicle westbound on Route 25 in the Mattituck area, police said. The defendant was located, observed to be failing to maintain her lane of traffic and was found to be intoxicated after she failed roadside sobriety tests, police said. McCabe was arrested, transported to police headquarters, processed and held overnight pending arraignment.

EAST HAMPTON

• Christopher J. Reale, 32, of East Hampton, was arrested on a charge of driving while ability impaired by drugs, a felony due to two prior convictions in the past 10 years, after an accident in Amagansett on May 4. East Hampton Town police said his 2002 Toyota struck multiple trees along Montauk Highway, near Mitchell Dunes Lane, when he left the roadway shortly after noon. Reale consented to a blood test at police headquarters. He was held overnight for arraignment. East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana ordered him held without bail. According to police, Reale's last conviction was on Jan. 24.

• East Hampton Town police responded to a burglary in progress on North Main Street, just outside the village, on Monday at about 1:25 a.m. A woman said she heard glass break and saw a man running north on North Main Street. Police found that a glass window at the had been shattered. Police searched the area and brought in a Suffolk County Sheriff's K-9 unit was brought in to canvas the area, but the suspect was not located. When the manager arrived, he didn't say whether any items had been taken, police said.