Crimes Nearby: Two Busted for Allegedly Forging Prescriptions

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:

Westhampton-Hampton Bays

•  reported May 2 that detectives arrested 28-year-old medical assistant Tiffany Langhorne, of Shirley, at the Prime Care medical clinic on West Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays. The former employee was charged with one count of second-degree forgery, a D felony, for forging doctors’ signatures on prescription pads in order to obtain a quantity of the controlled narcotics Percocet and Vicodin at various pharmacies, according to police.

• Arnoldo Sandolva-Palenzia, 25 of Riverhead was charged with Forgery in the second degree, a felony, on April 30. According to Westhampton Beach Police, Sandolva-Palenzia allegedly forged a prescription at on Sunset Avenue. He was released on $250 bail.

• On April 29, Westhampton Beach police nabbed Jose Martinez-Perez, 57 of Westhampton Beach on Peters Lane after police say he failed to maintain his lane.  Police charged Martinez-Perez with DWI and as an aggravated unlicensed driver, a felony. Police say Martinez-Perez had a prior DWI conviction. Martinez-Perez was held on $1,500 bail and remanded to the Suffolk County Jail in Riverside

Southampton

• Ronald Adam, 47, of Southampton, was charged with felony DWI May 5 at 7:49 p.m. after police stopped him on County Road 39 in Southampton, according to the arrest report. Police said Adam showed signs of intoxication such as slurred speech and problems standing. Cops said they also discovered an open 12-ounce can of beer in the vehicle, which is classified as a violation. Adam was charged with unlawfully consuming alcohol in a motor vehicle and he was issued a traffic summons for unsafe turning without signaling. The elevation of the DWI charge to a felony stemmed from a previous conviction, police said.