Crime & Safety
Village Police Log: 2 Face Felony Cocaine Charges in Separate Incidents
Also among the week's arrests in Southampton Village, a Flanders woman charged with false personation.
Editor's Note: The following information was supplied by the Southampton Village Police Department. A criminal charge is only an accusation and does not indicate convictions.
Southampton Village police report for the week of Jan. 29 to Feb. 4:
Drugs
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• Shane O. Spence, 24, of East Hampton, was arrested Feb. 3 at 12:10 a.m. after a failed attempt to run away when he was found with felony quantities of cocaine and marijuana, according to police.
Police said they stopped Spence while he was driving a 1997 Subaru Legacy eastbound on County Road 39 for a vehicle and traffic violation, and that's when he was found to have cocaine and marijuana. Spence tried to flee on foot, but was apprehended immediately, police said.
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Spence was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and fourth degree, both felonies, as well as criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, criminal possession of marijuana in the fifth degree and resisting arrest, all misdemeanors.
• Ryan L. Kellis, 25, of Southampton, was arrested Feb. 2 at 5:45 p.m. after police said an officer came upon him a McDonald's parking lot in a 2000 Cadillac Deville handling tin foil packets of drugs.
Kellis was arrested without incident and the packets were found to contain cocaine, according to police.
Kellis was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, a felony, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the second degree, both misdemeanors. Due to Kellis’ license being suspended 23 times, his vehicle was seized under the Suffolk County Vehicle Seizure Law, police said.
False Personation
• Deena L. Colgan, 41, of Flanders, was arrested Feb. 3 at 9:54 p.m. and charged with false personation, a misdemeanor. Police said Colgan also had an outstanding bench warrant for failure to appear in court.
