Crimes Nearby: Driver Who Killed Pedestrian in Hit-And-Run Sentenced

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

Westhampton-Hampton Bays
 
• Southampton Town police have slapped a felony charge on a 23-year-old Hampton Bays man after a Mac laptop went missing from a car parked outside Buckley's Inn Between in Hampton Bays last week. Police said Robert E. Miller was charged with grand larceny in the fourth degree on April 17 at 10 p.m.  Police said the laptop has since been returned to its owner.

Southampton

•  A North Sea man was issued an appearance ticket for a felony driving while intoxicated charge Sunday night at Southampton Hospital after he got into an accident and suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Kenneth A. Huneken, 59, was arrested at 10:30 p.m. on North Sea Road following the single-vehicle accident, and transported to the hospital, according to police. Police said an investigation at the scene of the crash revealed Huneken had been driving drunk.

•  James D. Selberg-Stross, 22, of East Hampton, was arrested April 17 at 6:07 a.m. on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree–alcohol related, a felony; driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor; and being an unlicensed driver, a traffic infraction.

Southampton Town police said Selberg-Stross was pulled over for multiple traffic violations. He said he was transporting someone to the hospital, but had been drinking, according to the arrest report.

• A North Haven man told Southampton Town police April 16 that he was scammed out of $3,540 by a caller who said his grandson was in the Dominican Republic and needed bail money. The man reported that he wired the money from a Western Union in two electronic transfers of $1,750 and two $20 fees. “After the money was sent, the subject called back asking for more money, alerting the complainant to the fraud,” the incident report states.

• A Sag Harbor woman told Southampton Town police April 18 that she sent $700 to a person in Florida via Western Union in an attempt to receive a $3,000 loan, but then the person asked for more money before releasing the loan. At this point, the victim told police, she realized it was a scam.

East Hampton

At his sentencing Wednesday morning, Edward L. Orr, who hit and killed a pedestrian in Amagansett in October, said he wished he had listened to the advice of his attorney and his parents.
 
Suffolk County Criminal Court Judge William Condon sentenced him to 2 to 6 years in state prison. The 31-year-old man can expect to serve about 5 of those years due to his prior felony conviction.

"He begged me repeatedly to turn myself in," Orr said of his attorney, Gordon Ryan, who represented him at the proceeding in Suffolk County Criminal Court. "You already made a big mistake, don't make it any worse," was the counseling Orr said he received.

• Kelvin Delacruz, 43, of Montauk, was arrested after he allegedly violated an order of protection during a domestic dispute on April 15. Police responded to an apartment on Duryea Avenue around 4:30 p.m., but Delacruz was gone. He was located at S. Emery Street in Montauk around 5:15 p.m., and placed under arrest. He was charged with first-degree criminal contempt, a felony, second-degree criminal trespass and acting in a manner injurious to a child under 17, both misdemeanors, and second-degree harassment, a violation. Justice Lisa R. Rana arraigned him, setting bail at $10,000 cash or $20,000 bond. He is being held at the Suffolk County jail in Riverside.