Crimes Nearby: Police Use Pepper Spray on Brawlers at Bowling Alley

North Fork

• Michael Gambardella, 18, of Garden City, was charged with driving while intoxicated after an early morning New Year's day car accident in Greenport.
Gambardella was driving a Honda CR-V SUV on Front Street around 8 a.m. on Jan. 1 when he hit a tree and a sign post and rolled the vehicle onto the front yard of a house located next to the Hotel, police said. Gambardella told police he had fallen asleep and was taken by members to for a check up. After investigation, Gambardella, who was not injured, was found to be intoxicated and was arrested and released on his own recognizance after his arraignment that afternoon.

• Enver Zorluoglu, 34, of Cedar Drive in Southold, was charged with driving while intoxicated, leaving the scene of an accident, and driving with a suspended license, no registration and no insurance on Dec. 31 at 8:34 p.m in Cutchogue.
Zorluoglu was involved in an accident at the corner of Route 25 and Depot Lane in Cutchogue, which left his vehicle with only three wheels after a driver's side tire came off the vehicle, police said. Zorluoglu then left the scene, driving a half a mile on three wheels, parking the car between two commercial buildings on Eugene's Road and then fleeing on foot, police said. Police apprehended the defendant a short time later, locating him underneath a tractor trailer. He was found to be intoxicated, arrested and transported to police headquarters in Peconic, where he was processed and held for arraignment.

• Alexis Griffin, 28, of Orient, was charged with driving while intoxicated on Dec. 26 at 11:12 p.m. after police stopped her for driving down the wrong way of North Street in Greenport, police said. After investigation, Griffin was found to be intoxicated, police said. She was processed and held at police headquarters pending arraignment

Miller Place-Rocky Point

• Michael Dirago, 21, of Rocky Point, was arrested Dec. 22 at about 4:53 p.m. and charged with fourth degree criminal possession of stolen property: value greater than $1,000 and unlawful possession of marijuana. He was found on Lavender Road reportedly in possession of two stolen iPads and the drug.

• Jonathan Kelly, 22, of Rocky Point, was arrested Dec. 22 at about 4:53 p.m. and charged with disorderly conduct: obstructing traffic. He allegedly stood in the middle of Lavender Road obstructing traffic, and refused police requests to move.

Southampton  

• A 15-year-old boy from Sagaponack and two 14-year-old boys from Sag Harbor were arrested Dec. 17 at 3:45 a.m. and charged with grand larceny in the fourth degree, a felony, as well as unauthorized use of a vehicle in the third degree, a misdemeanor. Southampton Village police said the teens were driving a 1998 Range Rover erratically eastbound on Hill Street, and, after investigation, discovered the vehicle was stolen earlier that night from the parking lot of Southampton Range Rover. All three juveniles were processed and released to their parents, police said. They all will have to appear in Family Court.

• Luis A. Mendizabal, 21, of Hampton Bays, was arrested Dec. 9 at 9:43 p.m. and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree and loitering in the first degree, both misdemeanors. While on routine patrol, officers noticed some suspicious activity involving Mendizabal in the area of McDonalds and upon further investigation found Mendizabal to have a quantity of crack/cocaine, Southampton Village police said. He also was wanted on a warrant from the Prince County Police Department in Manassas, Va. for failure to appear on a burglary charge, police said. He was processed and remanded to the Suffolk County Jail in lieu of $300 bail.

• Victoria Nava-Ochoa, 26, of Hampton Bays, was arrested Dec. 19 at 2:19 p.m. and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor. Southampton Village police said they received a call that there was an unattended child in an unlocked vehicle in the CVS parking lot. Upon arrival, they found a 4-year-old child asleep in the back seat of a 2006 Honda, police said. Nava-Ochoa was processed and released on an appearance ticket.  A referral to Child Protective Services was made.

Sag Harbor

• Jon P. Trabona, 42, of Southampton, was arrested Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. on Oakland Avenue and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. According to the Sag Harbor Village police arrest report, Trabona was arrested after admitting in the police station lobby that he was aware his 16-year-old, who had been charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, was buying drugs.

East Hampton

• After responding to a fight outside of  at 3 a.m. on Dec. 31, village police used pepper spray and a stun gun part of a Taser to gain control of brawlers.

Chief Jerry Larsen said approximately 40 people were actively fighting in the parking lot and that it spilled out onto the street. He said officers estimated about 75 people were in the parking lot at the time.

The bowling alley's lounge had been rented for a  for a local rapper on Dec. 30 from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.

• Diego P. Ordonez-Contreras, 28, of East Hampton, was arrested in Springs on New Year's Day after they came across a 1998 Honda on the front lawn of a house on Springs Fireplace Road wedged between a tree and a split rail fence at about 4:30 a.m. The driver was attempting to maneuver the car from the position. Police said he appeared drunk and they saw an open container of Corona beer within reach of him. They also found a marijuana cigar and a prescription pill container containing what later tested positive for marijuana on the floor board near his feet. He was arrested on a misdemeanor DWI charge at 4:53 a.m. East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana released him on $500 bail.

• Cameron L. Greenbaum, 23, of East Hampton, was arrested and charged with possession of a hypodermic instrument, a misdemeanor, during a traffic stop on Tub Oarsman Road in East Hampton on Dec. 24. While the driver, James Rivera, 34, of Bridgehampton, attempted to retrieve his driver's license from a back pack, police saw a plastic bag with three pills inside. Greenbaum was asked to step out of the car and they patted him down for weapons, when they came across a hard metal object in his jacket pocket. It turned out to be a needle. Meanwhile, Rivera was charged with driving with a suspended license. Both men were released on appearance tickets. The drug found turned out to be Trazodone, a drug not subject to the controlled substance act.