Crime & Safety

Crimes Nearby: Luxury Cars Disappear from Dune Road

Police say three cars worth $100,000 were reported stolen last week.

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

Westhampton-Hampton Bays

• Three top-end cars, worth more than $100,000, were reported stolen from three different driveways on Dune Road this week. A blue 2013 Mercedes Benz was taken in Quogue, a black 2013 Mercedes Benz went missing from Westhampton Beach, and a Porsche was snatched in West Hampton Dunes, police said. All of the cars were reported stolen between June 15 and 16.

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• William Haley, 54, of East Quogue, was charged with a felony count of possession of child pornography, on June 14 after an investigation. He was arrested on Montauk Highway in East Quogue.

• On May 25 at 3:20 a.m., Kevin McLaughlin, 61, of Southampton, was charged with a felony DWI charge. Police said he had a prior DWI conviction. He was initially stopped on Montauk Highway for making an unsafe lane change.

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Southampton

• Sag Harbor Village police arrested a Queens couple at their Ozone Park home Friday morning on felony larceny charges, alleging that they stole blank checks from a victim in the village and cashed in.

According to arrest reports, during April 2012 the couple, 40-year-old Surajdyal S. "Sam" Sukraj and 35-year-old Nina H. Sukraj, stole 19 blanks checks from a Union Street residence. The checks were written out to "Cash" and then cashed against the couple's joint checking account, police said. They reaped $54,600 this way, the reports stated. The Sukrajes each face a count of second-degree grand larceny.

• A Noyac resident was scammed out of $350 on June 6 after she answered her cellphone and agreed to wire the money to a man who told her that he was going to hold her sister hostage. The woman told police that the man told her that her sister struck a car that was parked with his nephew sitting on the hood and that the child fell off and was badly injured. He then told her that he would hold his sister hostage unless she wired him money Western Union. 

On the same day, a similar incident happened to another Noyac resident, only the resident was told by the scammer that his mother was involved in a car accident. He told police before paying the money, he called his mother to find that she had been home all day.

Police are investigating both incidents, and have warned against similar scams.


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