Crime & Safety
Town Police Log: Man and Woman Found with Crack
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Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance
Southampton Town Police arrested a 38-year-old Riverhead woman and 41-year-old man from upstate New York on drug charges last week.
Police said officers approached Tara Bennett and Brian Hambrick, who were parked on the corner of Flanders Road and Enterprise Zone Drive in Riverside on Oct. 18 at about 12:42 a.m. Bennett, the passenger, admitted to officers that she had a needle and crack cocaine with her, according to a police report.
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Police said they discovered that Hambrick, who is from Monroe, New York had crack in a glass pipe.
Bennett was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal possession of a hypodermic needle, both misdemeanors. Police charged Hambrick with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor.
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Petit Larceny
Rodney Brooks, 24, of Riverhead was arrested on Oct. 21 at 12:21 p.m. and charged with petit larceny, a misdemeanor. Police received a phone call about a stolen bike and later saw Brooks riding a bike on Flanders Road, according to a police report. Police said they stopped him on the corner of Flanders Road and Polk Street. Brooks told officers he found the bike on the ground, according to the report.
Burglary
A 52-year-old builder from East Quogue told police that sometime between 2 p.m. on Oct. 16 and 12:31 p.m. on Oct. 19 someone kicked in the front door of a home he owns on Reeves Bay Trail and took copper piping from the basement, causing it to flood. Copper piping was also stolen from the first-floor bedroom, and the sheet rock in the room was destroyed as well, police said.
Unlicensed Operation
Edwin Canel, 27, of Riverside was stopped Friday at 10:57 p.m. on the corner of Priscilla Avenue and Woodroad Trail in Flanders and charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. Canel was stopped for making a turn without using his signal, when police saw that he had marijuana in his pocket, according to a police report.
