Crimes Nearby: Supermodel Allegedly Stalked by Ardent Fan

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

Recent arrests and reported crimes from elsewhere on the East End:

Southampton:  

• A man pulled over in Southampton Village early Saturday morning was found not only to be allegedly driving drunk with a suspended license — but also unlawfully in possession of a loaded handgun, according to police. said that Joe Johnson, 38, of Southampton, , was charged with two felony counts and one misdemeanor count of criminal possession of a weapon around 3:36 a.m. Saturday on Hill Street after he was arrested for DWI and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree, both misdemeanors. Johnson had a .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol, police said.

• The unlicensed driver who fled the scene of a North Sea car crash last week that injured a passenger, toppled a tree and totaled the truck he was driving turned himself in to authorities three days later, police said. arrested Benjamin Walker, 34, of Hampton Bays, who was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle and leaving the scene of an accident causing bodily injury after he appeared with legal counsel at police headquarters April 19 in Hampton Bays to answer charges. The arrest stemmed from a at about 6 p.m. on Millstone Brook Road in North Sea. Police said Walker had lost his license due to a previous DWI conviction. After Walker fled the scene of the accident, in which the truck flipped over and caused a tree to uproot and fall to the ground, police enlisted a New York State K-9 unit as well as a Suffolk police helicopter, which was overheard by neighbors in the West Neck area of North Sea. At the time of the incident and subsequent search, Walker was not located.

Grand Larceny, Unauthorized Use of a Boat
• Steven Zeltmann, 27, of Sag Harbor, was arrested April 20 at 6:25 a.m. and charged with grand larceny in the third degree, a felony, and unauthorized use of a vehicle in the third degree, a misdemeanor. According to the arrest report, Zeltmann contacted the Coast Guard to say he was lost at sea in the Peconic Bay area and did not know where he was. The Coast Guard found Zeltmann far from Peconic Bay, southeast of Fisher’s Island, in a vessel reported stolen from Sag Harbor, police said. He was taken to Plum Island and handed over to Sag Harbor Village Police Department custody. The owner of the vessel retrieved it from Plum Island, off Orient Point.

East Hampton:

• A 23-year-old East Hampton man is being held at the Suffolk County jail in Riverside following an indictment related to the rape of a minor.
East Hampton Town police arrested Fidel A. Castro-Brito on April 6 two days after an alleged incident took place.

A man went to police when he saw a man he knew jumping out of his daughter's bedroom window upon his arrival home. He had confronted Castro months earlier on Facebook and advised him to stay away from his daughter because she is a minor and Castro said he would.

• Cecilia Thompson, 48, of East Hampton, was arrested on a charge of intent to defraud, a misdemeanor, after police said she didn't pay a taxi fare on April 18 in Amagansett. Thompson called for a Hometown Taxi to take her from Southampton Hospital to her residence. The fare was $40, and Thompson said she had to retrieve the cash from her house. When she did not return, the driver knocked on the door, but no one answered, so he called police. Thompson told police her son was coming with the money, but after waiting 40 minutes, police had to leave. They told the driver to call again if the fare wasn't paid within the hour. She was arrested at 10:50 a.m. She was released on an appearance ticket.

• Supermodel Bridget Hall is back in the news, but this time, it's not for her .
Hall is the latest celebrity with a house in East Hampton to report a problem with a fan.
She told East Hampton Town police on March 28 that has been receiving unwanted correspondence from a suspect who is not known to her between Aug. 3, 2011 and March 19, 2012. "Suspect did mention coming out to the area of East Hampton this summer by Jitney bus," the report said.