Three vehicles were involved in a chain reaction crash at a traffic light on Route 24.
Police and firefighters responded around 7:45 p.m. on Saturday evening to a three-car crash on Bellows Pond Road in Flanders. Responders on the scene said the cars crashed in a chain reaction at a traffic light. Two people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. The Hampton Bays Fire Department was called to bring heavy rescue equipment to the scene.
Police say more people around Riverhead also means a bevy of fender benders.
Sunny skies and warm temperatures mean not only an uptick in people out and about, enjoying the beauty of Riverhead -- but also, a rise in the number of fender benders, police say. Riverhead Town police were busy Saturday morning -- by 1 p.m., they'd already responded to the scene of a bevy of car accidents, including fender benders and minor accidents at sites including the intersection of Oswald Avenue and West Main Street, outside the Riverhead Historical Society, Roanoke Avenue, Old Country Road, Route 58, and Northville Turnpike. One accident, where a boat fell off a trailer in Jamesort at Washington Avenue and Route 25, caused traffic snarls and delays. Police said although heavy equipment was called to a number of the scenes, there…
Southampton resident Joe Johnson, who teaches 4th grade, pleaded not guilty to an 11-count indictment.
A Riverhead fourth grade teacher arrested last month and charged with driving while intoxicated with a loaded handgun in his car pleaded not guilty to 11 charges in Suffolk County Court on Friday. According to Bob Clifford, spokesman for Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota, Joe Johnson, of Southampton, pleaded not guilty to all 11 charges in a grand jury indictment. The indictment said that Johnson was accused by the grand jury of Suffok County with criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, "an armed violent felony," as well as one felony count of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and one misdemeanor charge of criminal possession of a weapon; one count of driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, …
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Flanders resident Benjamin S. Griffin, 57, was charged with allegedly forcing a female into the woods.
A man arrested last week for attacking a woman at knifepoint is a convicted Level 3 sex offender, police say. An attempted second-degree assault charge, a class-D felony, was leveled at Flanders resident Benjamin S. Griffin, 57, May 12 at 12:38 a.m. after police said he attempted to force a female victim into the woods in Riverside with a knife and attempted to assault her with the weapon. Griffin, said police, was apprehended shortly after the incident and taken into custody. He was additionally charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a class-D felony. According to police, a woman was walking near the bus stop located at the traffic circle in Riverside at approximately 10 p.m. on May 12 when a man allegedly attacked her…
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In other nearby crimes, DWI arrests and a man allegedly kicked in the door at a movie theater.
The following information was supplied by police departments on the East End. A criminal charge is only an accusation and does not indicate guilt. Westhampton-Hampton Bays • New York State Police are reporting that they charged an East Hampton man with DWI and various traffic violations after they say he tried to leave the scene of an accident on Sunrise Highway near the Flanders Road exit. Police said that after they were gged down by a motorist involved in a crash, Julio Parapi, 32, tried to drive off when officers attempted to stop him. Police said Parapi "stumbled out of his car." • On May 11, Bryce Danowski, 18, of Flanders, was charged with third-degree criminal mischief, a class-E felony, after police reported that Danowski kicked …
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The suspect, from Guatamala, has no green card; ADA calls it a "brutal" crime.
A man has been charged with murder after Mirian Garcia, 29, was found dead last week behind the Department of Motor Vehicles in Riverhead allegedly strangled her with a belt after raping her. Suffolk County homicide detectives arrested Guillermo Alfonso Alvarado-Ajcuc, 21, of Riverhead for the alleged murder of Mirian Garcia, 29 on Wednesday at approximately 6 p.m. Alvarado-Ajcuc, a Guatamalan resident who is in the United States without a green card, was charged with one count of murder in the second degree and rape in the first degree. He was held overnight before his arraignment at the Riverhead Town Court Thursday morning. Garcia, of Flanders, was found dead at a Riverhead shopping center on May 7. The Office of the Suffolk County …
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12:37 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
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Juan F. Soyos-Pixtun is scheduled to be sentenced on June 12.
A Riverhead teenager pleaded guilty last week after two November shootings. Juan Soyos-Pixtun, 18, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted assault in the first degree, four counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and two counts of assault in the second degree, according to Robert Clifford, spokesperson for Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota, on Tuesday. The DA's office, Clifford said, will recommend a seven year determination, plus five years of post release supervision. Soyos-Pixtun is slated to be sentenced on June 12 before Judge Mark Cohen. The defendent is to be deported to Guatamala, his country of origin, upon completion of his sentence, Clifford added. In addition, permanent orders of protection…
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Also in the week's police files, a DWI charged in Flanders, and a Flanders teen is charged with felony mischief.
Editor’s Note: The following information was supplied by the Southampton Town Police Department. A criminal charge is only an accusation and does not indicate convictions. Southampton Town police arrest reports from the Flanders, Riverside and Northampton area for the week of May 7 to May 13. Assault • An attempted second-degree assault charge, a class-D felony, was leveled at Flanders resident Benjamin Griffin, 57, May 12 at 12:38 a.m. after police said he attempted to force a female victim into the woods in Riverside with a knife and attempted to assault her with the weapon. Griffin, said police, was apprehended shortly after the incident and taken into custody. He was additionally charged with third-degree criminal possession of a …
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Southold Town Police charge contractor with assault and menacing at East Marion jobsite.
The following information was supplied by the Southold Town Police Department. A criminal charge is only an accusation, and does not indicate convictions. Tomas Jonas Lopez-Giron, 35, of Riverhead was charged with second-degree attempted assault, second-degree menacing and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon on May 9 at 8:40 a.m., after police responded to a report of a dispute at an East Marion jobsite, police said. A cement truck driver told police that a contractor, later identified as Lopez-Giron, first threatened him with a hammer and then came at him with a machete, police said. Although the victim did not receive any injuries, the machete did cut through his jacket and left marks on his arm, police said. The …
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Injuries sustained were not serious, police say.
Riverhead Town police responded on Thursday afternoon to a multiple car accident on Route 58 that involved a box truck and a number of vehicles and left at least three injured. The accident, which occurred at approximately 4:20 p.m. on Thursday involved a number of cars and closed a portion of Route 58 in the vicinity of McDonald's and the Department of Motor Vehicles for over an hour. Police say at least three individuals were brought to Peconic Bay Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. On Thursday evening, police said the accident, while stopping traffic and involving multiple ambulances, was not serious, and the injuries were minor.
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11:38 am on Saturday, May 19, 2012
So, this guy was driving drunk with a loaded handgun in the car and talking on a cellphone and the cops got 11 charges out of that? Did he fail to manifest a properly respectful attitude? more ›