Crime & Safety

Crimes Nearby: Supermodel Reports Letters From Stalker

Also in the police logs from around the East End this past week, an East Hampton man is charged with rape, and an accused peeping Tom is arrested in Southold.

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

Recent notable arrests and reported crimes from elsewhere on the East End:

EAST HAMPTON

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• Supermodel Bridget Hall is back in the news, but this time, it's not for her . Hall is the latest celebrity with a house in East Hampton to report a problem with a fan. She told East Hampton Town police on March 28 that has been receiving unwanted correspondence from a suspect who is not known to her between Aug. 3, 2011 and March 19, 2012. "Suspect did mention coming out to the area of East Hampton this summer by Jitney bus," the report said.

• A 23-year-old East Hampton man is being held at the Suffolk County Jail in Riverside following an indictment related to the rape of a minor. East Hampton Town police arrested Fidel A. Castro-Brito on April 6 two days after an alleged incident took place. A man went to police when he saw a man he knew jumping out of his daughter's bedroom window upon his arrival home. He had confronted Castro months earlier on Facebook and advised him to stay away from his daughter because she is a minor and Castro said he would.

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RIVERHEAD

• Riverhead Town police are investigating a report of criminal mischief and larceny from vending machines after three suspects allegedly entered the laundromat in the T.J. Maxx Plaza on March 29 at approximately 5 p.m. and broke into two vending machines. The three removed an undetermined amount of coins and cash and fled the store with the proceeds, police say. The Riverhead Detective Division is investigating; anyone with information is asked to call 631-727-4500.

• A Babylon man was arrested Friday night after then proceeded to flee the scene of the accident.
Timothy Corcoran, 43, was later found in the parking lot of the Flanders McDonald’s, police said. Corcoran was arrested and transported to the Riverhead Town Police Department, where he was held on charges of driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident.

WESTHAMPTON-HAMPTON BAYS

•On April 19, Erick L. Castor, 27, of Westhampton Beach was arrested and charged with two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree and three counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree. The same day, Quogue resident Frederick Wilkinson, 69, was arrested for criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree. The defendant allegedly was in possession of less than a gram of cocaine when he was arrested. Wilkinson was given a field appearance ticket.

NORTH FORK

• James Lawrence, 35, of Greenport turned himself into on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. on an arrest warrant issued last week, after police had been investigating reports of Lawrence looking into the first floor windows of several different houses on First Street in the village during the early morning hours of April 7, police said. Lawrence, who has been arrested and charged in the past for offences such as public lewdness and burglary in the village, was released on his own recognizance and will return to court on a later date, police said.


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