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East End Notebook:Victim of a Southampton Crash Identified; Circus Protestors Demonstrate

Also, a Greenport circus was protested and the boyfriend of a crash victim vows justice.

RIVERHEAD

Boyfriend of Hit-And-Run Victim: 'They Killed My Girl'

The boyfriend of a young Riverhead mother killed on Route 58 last week after a hit-and-run said he will not rest until the men are found that ran off and left the woman he loved to die on the road. 

Police said this week that the search is still on for the pair who ran off and abandoned their car after the accident.

NORTH FORK

Tempers Flare As Animal Activists Protest Circus

Carrying signs and distributing literature that described what some consider the horrors suffered by circus animals, protestors outside the Cole Bros. Circus tent in Greenport sparked controversy on Wednesday.

The small group of animal advocates, representing the Long Island Orchestrating for Nature (LION) animal rights group, turned out at the Polo Grounds in Greenport to protest the conditions under which animals are allegedly kept in the circus.

WESTHAMPTON-HAMPTON BAYS

Hampton Bays Puppy Experience Owner Found Dead In Motel

Riverhead town police have confirmed that Scott Kaphan, Hampton Bays resident and owner of the Puppy Experience in Aquebogue, was found dead in a Riverhead hotel on Saturday. 

SOUTHAMPTON

Carissa Castillo of Shirley Identified as Victim in Southampton Crash

Carissa Castillo, a 29-year-old Shirley resident and mother of two, diedThursday morning when the SUV she was behind the wheel of collided with a bus on County Road 39, according to Southampton Town police.

Det. Sgt. Lisa Costa said that Castillo was in the left eastbound lane when her vehicle crossed into westbound traffic, striking a Hampton Jitney head-on. It appears that Castillo died instantaneously, Costa said. The driver and an attendant on the Hampton Jitney, which was carrying no passengers, were taken to Southampton Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, she said.

The reason Castillo's SUV veered into a westbound lane remains under investigation, Costa said. 

Police believe Castillo was on her way to work at a County Road 39 business. The accident was reported at 7:05 a.m. near the St. Andrews Road intersection. The road was closed for hours in both directions as the accident was under investigation, causing traffic to be backed up for miles.


EASTHAMPTON

Captain: 'I Wasn’t Coming Home Without Him'

Anthony “Little Anthony” Sosinski woke up Wednesday morning at 6 a.m. to a panic: His fishing boat Anna Mary was 60 miles south of Montauk Point and his partner and friend since second grade John “Johnny Load” Aldridge was nowhere to be found.

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