Crimes Nearby: Woman Reportedly Falls Asleep, Drunk, With Car in Drive

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

EAST HAMPTON

Latoya Petty, 27, of East Hampton, was arrested on March 20 charges of DWI and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree.
According to police, around 5:30 a.m. the station received a call that a green BMW was obstructing traffic at the intersection of Stephen Hands Path and Montauk Highway with a female driver asleep at the wheel.

Police reportedly arrived to find Petty sleeping while the car was in drive, with her foot on the brake and the engine running. After placing the car in park and turning off the engine, police said they awoke Petty to find a smell of alcohol on her breath, glassy and bloodshot eyes, and when asked to step out of the car she was reportedly unsteady on her feet. Cops also said they found an open container of E&J Brandy behind her front passenger seat.

She was  arrested, transported to headquarters, processed, held for morning arraignment and released on $350 bail.

Police said that her license had been revoked on Feb. 23 after failing to answer a summons.
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James Fabrizio, 22, of East Hampton, was arrested on March 23 on charges of aggravated DWI, and DWI.

East Hampton Town Police said that a silver Volvo was seen around 8:30 p.m. that night driving westbound on Abrahams Path with damage to the car, including a broken left rear taillight and a flat driver's side tire.

Cops said that the car was pulled over and a strong smell of alcohol emanated from the car, and Fabrizio had glassy and bloodshot eyes.

Fabrizio was arrested, transported to headquarters for processing, and later released on $500 bail.
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An East Hampton man who turned himself into police nearly a year ago and confessed to sexually abusing three children on Tuesday at Suffolk County Court in Riverside.

Henry Lopez Gonzalez, 28, pleaded guilty to two charges of criminal sex acts in the first degree, and one more of course of sexual conduct against a child in the second degree.

The man had to East Hampton Town Police, claiming he had abused the children, each under seven years old, over a period of several months.

WESTHAMPTON-HAMPTON BAYS

Douglas Estridge, 27, of West Islip, was arrested March 25 at 9:06 p.m. on Sunrise Highway eastbound at the intersection of North Road in Hampton Bays. Estridge, said police, failed several field sobriety tests at the scene and was charged with driving while intoxicated with a blood alcohol content of .08 or higher, a misdemeanor, and speeding, a traffic infraction. He was additionally charged with failure to produce an insurance card, not wearing a seat belt and failing to keep right in the road, all traffic infractions.

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Douglas Champagne, 28, of Flanders, was arrested after police pulled him over March 24 at 4:18 p.m. for a traffic violation on West Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays, according to the arrest report. After failing several field sobriety tests, Champagne was taken into custody and charged with DWI with blood alcohol content of .08 or higher, a misdemeanor, and tailgating, a traffic violation.

SOUTHAMPTON

After pleading guilty to second-degree murder in January, 22-year-old Pedro Jones, of Southampton, was on March 22.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office said that Jones struck a 17-month-old he was babysitting so hard in the chest that the toddler, Roy Jones III, went into cardiac arrest. According to authorities, Jones said he punched the child to get him to calm down. Pedro Jones was not related to Roy Jones III, who was his then-girlfriend's son.

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Susan F. Herman, 58, of Southampton, was arrested March 17 at 10:34 p.m and charged with felony DWI, according to police. Police said they stopped Herman while she was driving a 1992 Chevrolet on Pine Street for not being able to keep her vehicle on the roadway.

Upon further investigation, she was placed under arrest, police said.

A computer check revealed that Herman had two previous convictions for DWI within the past 10 years, police said. Her vehicle was seized as per the Suffolk County Vehicle Seizure Law and she was held overnight for arraignment, police said.