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Crimes Nearby: Greenport Murderer Sentenced to Death in Florida

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North Fork

Former North Fork resident Robert Waterhouse, who has spent decades on death row at Florida State Prison, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Feb. 15 at 6 p.m., according to reports on sunshineslate.com and westorlandonews.com.

Florida governor Rick Scott signed the order of execution — his first of the year — on Jan. 4.

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Waterhouse, 65, was sentenced to life in 1967 for the 1966 rape-murder of 77-year-old Greenport resident Ella Carter. While out on lifetime parole in 1980, he raped and killed Deborah Kammerer in St. Petersburg, Fla., and was convicted of first-degree murder, according to the reports.

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Kevin Carroll, 49, of Fishers Island, was arrested on Jan.7 at 9:30 a.m. by Southold Town Police detectives on charges of theft and failure to pay child support, police reported. Carroll had active arrest warrants out of Baltimore County, Maryland, police said. He was arrested without incident, transported by Southold Town Police Bay Constables to police headquarters in Peconic for processing and was turned over to the Suffolk County Police Fugitive Squad for extradition to Maryland, police said.

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David Skaritka, 21, of Coram, was charged with driving while impaired by drugs on Jan. 7 at 7:32 a.m., after police found him stopped on the westbound lane of Route 48 near Albertsons Lane in Greenport with the engine running and the vehicle in reverse, police said. After investigation, Skaritka was found to be impaired by drugs and resisted arrest, police said. He was taken to police headquarters in Peconic where he was processed.

Westhampton-Hampton Bays

, 22, of Hampton Bays was arrested Jan. 7 at 11:10 p.m. and charged with felony DWI and moving from lane unsafely, a traffic infraction. Police said Danielson struck a utility pole on Ponquogue Avenue and Argonne Road East and she performed poorly on sobriety tests.

Southampton

A Hampton Bays man reported to Southampton Town police Jan. 8 that he was being given a ride home from Momento’s by two men he thought he knew, but they stopped the car on Gravel Hill Road/Argonne Road East and made him get out, then frisked him and took his billfold, $100 in cash, ID, and Visa card. Police said the complainant was drunk at the time of the incident. The doorman at told police that about an hour before the incident he turned away two white men who were underage, but no one saw the complainant get in their vehicle.

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James F. Caine, 24, of Manorville, was arrested Dec. 26 at 9:30 p.m. and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, a felony. Southampton Village police said they stopped Caine for a vehicle and traffic violation while operating a 2007 Pontiac on North Sea Road and found him to be in possession of more than 500 milligrams of cocaine. In addition, he had two outstanding warrants from the Suffolk County Police Department, police said. He was processed and remanded to the Suffolk County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bail.

Miller Place-Rocky Point

Four individuals were arrested on drug charges - one with intent to sell - on Dec. 30 on Lavender Road in Rocky Point. According to police, Robert M. Vona III, 26, of Rocky Point, was charged with third degree possession of a controlled substance, a narcotic drug with intent to sell. The following three were charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance: James Sorce, 32, of Rocky Point; Merissa Caskey, 32, of Rocky Point; and a 16-year-old minor.

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Corey Carson, 26, of Ridge, was arrested Jan. 1 and at about 3:00 p.m. and charged with criminal mischief, fourth degree grand larceny, and unauthorized use of a vehicle without the owner's consent. He allegedly broke into a vehicle in the parking lot of Planet Fitness in Rocky Point, took a pocketbook, and used the vehicle.


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