Crimes Nearby: Springs Landlord Charged With Unlawful Surveillance

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

East Hampton

• Tenants thought they were paying for a Hamptons getaway, but what they got was an extreme invasion of privacy, according to the Suffolk County district attorney's office.

Donald Torr, a 70-year-old Springs landlord, taped "hundreds of hours" of footage involving 22 people, including nine children, over two weeks in August 2012, Assistant District Attorney John Cortez said at Torr's arraignment in Suffolk County Criminal Court in Riverside on Wednesday.

Torr charged $7,000 per week for the two separate rental periods in question as a "method and tool to commit unlawful surveillance," Cortez said.

Judge John Iliou arraigned Torr on 14 counts of unlawful surveillance in the second degree, a felony, and nine counts of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.

• Uranus G. Mayton, 26, of Hampton Bays, was held on $3,500 cash or $10,000 bond after he was arrested and charged with felony DWI in East Hampton on May 29. Police said Mayton crashed a 2006 Ford into a parked 2006 Volvo in a driveway on Winding Way at about 12:15 a.m. After sideswiping the Volvo, the Ford came to rest in a ditch. The officer found him outside of the Ford, and said he appeared intoxicated. A check of his driving record revealed he had a previous conviction of DWI in the Town of Southampton in October 2008, which led to the felony charge. The Ford was impounded. Justice Catherine A. Cahill arraigned him and set bail.

Riverhead

• A man with a machete was arrested on a terrorism charge at the Tanger Outlet Center in Riverhead, police said.

Riverhead Town police said they received a call that a man with a machete in his backpack said he wanted to hurt people and himself at about 12:45 p.m.

John Medina, 32, of Mastic, was arrested and charged with making a terroristic threat, a felony, police said, as well as criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, a misdemeanor.

Following his arraignment, he was remanded to the Suffolk County Correctional Facility.

• A pair of local teens were arrested after reportedly partying in a couple of vacant Flanders houses last weekend.   

According to Southampton police, the duo – as well as several others, who escaped before police could break up the party – were partying in a vacant bungalow on Peconic Trail when word got out that a bigger house in the area was also open to party in. The get-together shifted, police said, to Huntington Lane, where a neighbor alerted the homeowner that activity was going on in his house.   

Westhampton-Hampton Bays

• The Southampton Police Department is looking for a man caught on camera stealing money and various other items from Hampton Nursery in Hampton Bays.

According to police, the man is described as white, medium build, and approximately 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet. He was wearing dark-colored sneakers, jeans, a long sleeve top along with gloves and a ski mask at the time of the burglary, police said.