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Southold Town police are investigating a “street fight” in the Adams Street parking lot in Greenport that ended with injuries to three men involved and Eastern Long Island Hospital employees after the fight continued in the hospital’s emergency room early Sunday morning, police said.

Hraklis Morris, 36, of Greenport, Walter Arevalo, 24, of Shelter Island, and Luis Mijangos, 33, of Southold all ended up at the hospital after being injured during the midnight street fight, which involved a knife, police said. At about 12:30 a.m., the fight continued in the emergency room, according to police.

While breaking up the fight, members of the hospital staff sustained minor injuries, police said, though they declined comment on the number of employees who were injured or the number of suspects involved in the fight.

Two of the men had “serious lacerations” from either “a knife or similar type cutting instrument” used by “at least” one of the participants at the Adams Street incident, police said.

Mr. Arevalo was transferred to Stony Brook University Medical Center due to the serious nature of his injuries, police said. Mr. Morris and Mr. Mijangos were treated at ELIH.

No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing, police said.

Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Southold Police Department at (631) 765-2600.

More than a year after he allegedly bought alcohol using a stolen check in Southold Town, a Manor Park man was arrested Wednesday night in Hampton Bays on the active warrant, Southold police said.

David Sandberg, 33, was caught in Hampton Bays and taken to police headquarters after authorities found he had several active warrants, according to a police statement.

Mr. Sandberg allegedly bought liquor using a stolen check the morning of Feb. 3, 2012, police said. He was charged with petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, both misdemeanors, and held for arraignment Thursday.

In addition to the Southold warrant, Mr. Sandberg also had arrest warrants out of two other Suffolk County courts, police said. Information about those active warrants wasn’t immediately available.

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An unmanned car rolled away from its parking spot at a Southold convenience store last Monday, making it across the street and striking another vehicle, according to Southold Town Police.

A Southold man parked his Jeep at 7-Eleven around 2:30 p.m. and entered the store, according to a police report.

When he exited, he noticed that his vehicle had rolled out of the parking lot and across the Main Road, striking a parked van, police said.

The owner of the runaway Jeep believes the vehicle malfunctioned causing it to roll away, the report stated.

No injuries were reported and no tickets were issued, police said.

A 23-year-old Greenport man was ticketed for smoking marijuana in his car, according to Southold Police.

• A man police described as homeless was arrested after he shattered a window at a North Fork church last Thursday, according to Southold Police.

Kevin O’Rourke, 31, of Hampton Bays, was staying at the the Mattituck Presbyterian Church for the night and became agitated when he was told he could not have a cigarette, police said.

Mr. O’Rourke slammed a large door with a window in it, causing a portion of the glass to break, police said. He then left the church on foot, but was later picked up by officers on Love Lane, according to a police report.

He was taken to headquarters and held overnight awaiting arraignment.

• An East Marion man was nabbed Sunday on a drunken-driving charge following a car accident, police said.

Dominic Colfer, 59, was driving on Maple Lane in East Marion at around 6 p.m. when his vehicle crashed into another car, officials said.

No injuries were reported. When officers arrived to investigate the accident, police performed field sobriety tests and found Mr. Colfer was intoxicated after he failed the test several times, police said.

Mr. Colfer was taken to headquarters and held overnight for arraignment.

• A 23-year-old Greenport man was ticketed for smoking marijuana in his car, police said.

Police found Daniel Partridge last Wednesday parked at the end of Harbor River Road in Orient around 11:30 p.m., according to a police report. Upon approaching the vehicle, officers detected a strong smell of marijuana and found Mr. Partridge in possession of a marijuana cigarette, police said.

Those who are named in police reports have not been convicted of any crime or violation. The charges against them may later be reduced or withdrawn, or they may be found innocent.

Paul Tromblee

A 35-year-old Manorville man accused of pulling off 10 armed robberies in Suffolk County, including one in Calverton and one Mattituck, was doing so to support a heroin addiction, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office.

Paul Tromblee pleaded not guilty in county criminal court Friday to nine counts of first-degree armed robbery and one count of third-degree robbery. He was then held on $250,000 cash bail or $500,000 bond by Suffolk County Court Judge John Iliou.

Mr. Tromblee is accused of displaying a firearm and demanding money from clerks in 10 different robberies from Oct. 30 to Nov. 7 to get money to support a heroin addiction, said assistant district attorney Tisha Burrows, the prosecutor assigned to the case.

“He admitted that orally and in writing,” Ms. Burrows told a reporter outside the courtroom following Mr. Tromblee’s arraignment on the indictment, which was handed up by a grand jury on Monday.

Mr. Tromblee, who has been in custody since his Nov. 9 arrest, wore green pants and a green T-shirt in court, exposing a sleeve tattoo on his right arm.

A number of his relatives were present, although none spoke in court or afterward when asked for comment by a reporter.

“After having met with many of his family members, I would say the allegations are out of character for Mr. Tromblee,” said Steve Politi, Mr. Tromblee’s attorney. He said there also are about a dozen character-reference letters supporting Mr. Tromblee from people outside his family.

“He has no criminal convictions,” Mr. Politi said of his client. “He’s a dad. He has an 8-year-old boy and he’s very loved by his family.”

Ms. Burrows said Mr. Tromblee began a pattern of robberies starting last month at small stores in which he would walk up to the counter and pretend to buy something, like a bottle of water or a beverage. When the clerk would open the register to make change, he would display a gun and demand money, often asking the clerk to lift up the register draw to make sure there was no money left under it, she said.

Many of the robberies were caught on surveillance videos, she said.

In an interview outside the courtroom, Ms. Burrows said Mr. Tromblee admitted to using a BB gun in the robberies, although no weapon has been recovered. She said whether he had a BB gun or a real gun would not affect the charge of first-degree robbery because he allegedly said during the robberies that he had a gun.

Judge Iliou said he believed the $250,000 bail demanded by the prosecutor was low, and he said that given the amount of Upstate jail time Mr. Tromblee potentially faces on these charges (25 years), and the allegation that he was doing the robberies to support a heroin addiction, he felt Mr. Tromblee did present a flight risk.

He then approved the $250,000 cash bail and $500,000 bond amounts, and set a return court date of Dec. 18.

Mr. Tromblee also faces a separate charge of possession of a hypodermic instrument, stemming from a Nov. 9 arrest by Suffolk County police in regard to an Oct. 30 incident.

The robberies occurred at gas stations in Calverton, Mastic, North Babylon, St. James, Dix Hills, and Bohemia, as well as Jamba Juice in Stony Brook, Kissed by the Sun Tanning in Islip, CVS Pharmacy in Lake Ronkonkoma, and Game Stop in Mattituck.

The Calverton robbery was at the Hess station by the LIE entrance ramp off Nugent Drive.

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A 33-year-old woman was ticketed for marijuana possession Saturday night when police discovered she had the drug in her car, Southold Town police said.

Camille Gordon of Coram was stopped on Route 25 in Mattituck for traffic violations about 8:50 p.m., according to a police statement. A police officer found she had marijuana and arrested her, police said.

She was given a ticket for unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation, and released at the scene.

HRAKLIS MORRIS

A Greenport man who allegedly attacked another man in a midnight street fight in Greenport last week, then continued the fight into a hospital emergency room is now facing felony assault charges, Southold Town police said.

Police say Hraklis Morris, 36, attacked a 24-year-old man — identified by police last week as Walter Arevalo of Shelter Island — with a knife in the Adams Street parking lot near the laundromat in Greenport early last Sunday. Both Mr. Morris and Mr. Arevalo were injured in the fight and were taken to Eastern Long Island hospital by friends, police said.

Mr. Morris then continued the fight in the emergency room about half an hour alter at 12:30 a.m., attacking Luis Mijangos, 33, of Southold.

While breaking up the fight, members of the hospital staff sustained minor injuries, police said. Police did not comment on the number of employees who were injured.

Mr. Arevalo was transferred to Stony Brook University Medical Center due to the serious nature of his injuries, police said. An update on his condition was not immediately available. Mr. Morris and Mr. Mijangos, the two who fought in the emergency room, were treated at ELIH.

Mr. Morris was arrested Sunday morning at police headquarters and charged with two counts of assault, one for the knife attack and one for the fight in the emergency room, police said. Police said though hospital employees reported they were injured, no charges have been filed yet.

Mr. Morris was arraigned in Southold Justice Court Sunday morning and remanded without bail to the Suffolk County jail.

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A Riverhead woman was arrested by Nassau County police Wednesday on an active bench warrant from Southold Town police, according to a press release.

Raquel Mahon, 44, failed to appear in court to face charges stemming from a prior DWI arrest, police said.

Ms. Mahon had been arrested in July after another driver spotted her driving in and out of her lane on Main Road in Cutchogue, police said. She had been driving with a suspended license at the time, police said.

A Cutchogue man who was pulled over Saturday morning for a license plate violation in Bridgehampton was arrested after police found drugs and a needle filled with heroin in his car, Southampton Town police said.

Brian Mosblech, 29, was stopped on Montauk Highway near the Sag Harbor Turnpike about 11:45 a.m., police said. While interviewing Mr. Mosblech an officer noticed empty glassine paper envelopes “in plain view” in the pickup truck’s cup holder, according to a police report. Police searched the truck and found eight envelopes containing heroin inside the front floor cup holder, as well as a needle loaded with heroin, according to the report.

Mr. Mosblech was arrested at the scene and charged with criminal drug possession, a misdemeanor and a traffic violation.

• Greenport man previously convicted of DWI was arrested again for drunken driving last week in Southampton Town, state police said.

Police stopped Ronald Smith, 47, as he was driving south at 87 miles per hour on County Road 51 last Thursday, according to a police statement. A state trooper found Mr. Smith was intoxicated and arrested him at the scene, police said.

He was charged with felony DWI and held overnight at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, according to the statement.

• A Southold woman reported that someone took headsets, toolboxes and a life raft from a aircraft hangar her deceased husband had rented in Westhampton, according to a police report.

The victim told police she hadn’t been in the hangar for at least 18 months but went there last Wednesday to find two stainless steel toolboxes, a work table, four aircraft headsets, a life raft and sailboat instructions were missing.

Police did not say how much the missing items were worth.

Those who are named in police reports have not been convicted of any crime or violation. The charges against them may later be reduced or withdrawn, or they may be found innocent.

A Southold man was arrested Sunday night after police said he was observed swerving across the white line in the westbound lane along Main Road in Southold, town police said.

Patrick Lohn, 64, was found to be intoxicated when interviewed by police shortly before 8 p.m., police said.

He was charged with DWI and held overnight for a Monday arraignment, police said.

A patient at Eastern Long Island Hospital was placed in handcuffs after becoming disorderly while going through detox last Tuesday, police said.

Around 8 p.m., hospital staff reported that the 26-year-old patient from Northport was throwing items in the common area among other patients and then proceeded to punch an employee in the face, according to a police report.

The man was restrained until he calmed down, police said.

The employee chose not to press charges and the disorderly patient was transported to the Riverhead train station for a train to Holbrook.

• A Manorville woman was taken into custody after being busted for driving under the influence of alcohol Sunday night, Southold Police said.

Shannon Cutolo, 25, was stopped around 4 a.m. after crossing the yellow line into the arresting officer’s lane on Route 25 in Laurel, police said.

When the officer turned the car around in pursuit of Ms. Cutolo he saw her cross the solid white line on the right side of the roadway near Laurel Lake Winery, according to the a police report.

When Ms. Cutolo was stopped the officer reporter that she smelled of alcohol, her eyes were red and glassy, her speech was slurred and she was unsteady on feet. She failed several field sobriety testes administered at the scene, police said.

• A 22-year-old Southold woman was arrested for driving drunk on Thanksgiving, according to New York State Police.

Carolyn Wells was stopped for failing to maintain her lane while driving on Route 25 in Greenport and was found to be intoxicated, police said. She was charged with DWI, police said.

• A 25-year-old New Jersey man was arrested for drinking and driving Nov. 27, Southold Town Police said.

William John Granneman, of Califon, New Jersey, was stopped at around 10 p.m. for making an unsafe lane change while driving on Route 25 in Mattituck, police said.

Mr. Granneman failed several roadside sobriety tests and was arrested at the scene, according to a police report.

• A pile of leaves got caught in the muffler of a gas-powered blower causing a small brush fire in Southold Nov. 25, according to Southold Police.

Around 11:30 a.m., landscaping crews were cleaning a yard on Bayview Road when the leaves became stuck in the machine causing a small fire, according to a police report.

The flames spread to a small area, but the fire was contained and quickly extinguished by the Southold Fire Department, police said.

Those who are named in police reports have not been convicted of any crime or violation. The charges against them may later be reduced or withdrawn, or they may be found innocent.

Southold Town police arrested a 58-year-old Southold man on a drunken driving charge after the man crashed his vehicle on Bay Avenue Thursday evening, according to Southold police.

Ralph Russell was in a single-car accident on Bay Avenue in Mattituck about 5:45 p.m., police said. Officers at the scene reportedly found Mr. Russell was intoxicated and arrested him.

Mattituck Fire Rescue volunteers took Mr. Russell to Eastern Long Island Hospital to be treated for minor injuries, police said. He was released from the hospital and taken to police headquarters to be held overnight for morning arraignment.

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GRANT PARPAN PHOTO | A police canine returns to the patrol car near Main Street in New Suffolk Sunday.

Southold Town Police were canvasing New Suffolk Sunday afternoon in search of a man two teenage sisters said they saw in their backyard today.

Several police cars were patrolling the area near Main and Fourth streets while a K-9 unit searched the surrounding woods.

Officers said they were looking for a heavy-set white male in his early 30s with black hair who was wearing a black sweatshirt, blue jeans and brown work boots.

The search began after one of the two sisters — one 13 and the other 15 years old — called police to say she received a phone call on a cell phone from a man asking for her name shortly after 2 p.m.. No adults were home in the house at the time, but have since returned home.

The girls said they then saw a man fitting the above description in their backyard.

As of 4 p.m., several patrol cars remained in the area.

Police said the investigation was preliminary and that they had no further comment.

A 48-year-old Southold man was cuffed for driving under the influence early Sunday morning, police said.

Just after 2:30 a.m. Southold police stopped Michael Stafford on Route 25 in Cutchogue for making an unsafe lane change, officers said.

During further investigation, police found Mr. Stafford was intoxicated, according to a police report. He was arrested and taken to Southold police headquarters and held for arraignment.

• A Mastic Beach woman was issued multiple traffic violations after being stopped by Southold Town police Sunday night, a police report stated.

Meredith Kormoski, 33, was driving eastbound on Route 25 in Mattituck just after 1 p.m. when officers stopped her for crossing the double yellow line to pass another vehicle, police said.

A further investigation found Ms. Kormoski was driving without a valid license, according to the report.

She was arrested for aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, driving left of pavement markings, improper display of a license plate and operating a motor vehicle without financial security, police said.

Ms. Kormoski was arrested and released on $100 cash bail, police stated.

She is due in Southold Town Justice Court on Dec. 23, according to the police report.

Those who are named in police reports have not been convicted of any crime or violation. The charges against them may later be reduced or withdrawn, or they may be found innocent.

CYNDI MURRAY PHOTOS | Adam Huhn, left, and Britni Jade Zielinski entering Southold Town Justice Court on Monday. The couple was arrested Sunday on drug charges.

A Mattituck couple has pleaded not guilty to drug charges following their arrest during a police raid at their Wavecrest Avenue home.

Adam Huhn, 36, and Britni Jade Zielinski, 28, were found in possession of methamphetamine, marijuana, scales and packaging materials about 5 p.m. Sunday night after an investigation by Southampton Town police, Southold Town police and investigators from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s East End Drug Task Force, officials said.

At the couple’s arraignment in Southold Town Justice Court Monday, prosecutors said Mr. Huhn had no prior criminal history, but Ms. Zielinski had been arrested in 2009 on drug and grand larceny charges in Florida.

They were each charged with two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance and two counts of criminal use of drug paraphernalia, all felonies, as well as one count each of unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation, police said.

Mr. Huhn was held on $5,000 cash bail and Ms. Zielinski was held on $25,000 cash bail .

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An underage Southold man without a license was allegedly caught driving drunk in Mattituck early Wednesday, Southold Town police said.

Police got an anonymous tip about 2:40 a.m. of an “erratic driver” in a grey Ford SUV headed east on Main Road, according to a police statement. An officer spotted the vehicle driving in and out of its lane and pulled the SUV over, police said.

The driver — 20-year-old Edwin Carbajal — was given field sobriety tests and was arrested, police said.

He was charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated, and issued traffic violations for failing to keep in his lane and unlicensed driving, police said.

He was held for arraignment in Southold Town Justice Court.

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GOOGLE MAP IMAGE | Tuckers Lane and Route 48 in Southold.

A New York City mother was issued a summons following a car accident in Southold Friday morning, according to a Southold Town police press release.

Juliana Zinger, 46, was driving on Tuckers Lane at around 10:20 a.m. and collided with another vehicle when she failed to yield to oncoming traffic while making a left turn onto Route 48, police said.

Although the press release says two children ages 10 and 8 were involved in the accident, it states Ms. Zinger and “her three children” were taken to Peconic Bay Hospital.

When contacted by The Suffolk Times for clarification, police said no one would be available until Monday to comment on the discrepancy.

Ms. Zinger was issued a summons for failure to yield to another vehicle, police said.

The other driver was taken to Eastern Long Island Hospital, officials said.

No other details about the incident were available.

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Update: Southold Police Chief Martin Flatley said that Mr. Trzaskalski was held on $25,000 bail, and remanded to Suffolk County Correctional Facility.

Original story: A repairman allegedly swiped $50,000 worth of jewelry from a Greenport residence in November, Southold Town police said.

Adam Trzaskalski, 31, of Oakdale was arrested and charged with second-degree grand larceny, a felony, police announced this morning.

Mr. Trzaskalski reportedly worked inside the home Nov. 16 when the thefts occurred, police said. Southold detectives, with the assistance of Suffolk County Police detectives, recovered numerous items from the theft, police said.

Police did not reveal the specific home that was robbed.

Mr. Trzaskalski was held at Southold headquarters awaiting arraignment, police said.

CYNDI MURRAY PHOTO | Southold Police Chief Martin Flatley shows off the town’s new police van to the Town Board Tuesday morning.

Southold Town police unveiled a state-of-the-art, fully equipped police command van Tuesday morning, which has enhanced capabilities to protect critical infrastructure such as Plum Island and Cross Sound Ferry.

The $184,000 van was funded entirely by a Buff Zone Protection Program grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that the police department obtained in 2011, Police Chief Martin Flatley said.

The van arrived in December, Chief Flatley said, tailored to Southold Town’s specific needs, such as radio frequencies.

During Tuesday morning’s town board work session the chief showed off the van, which includes extensive radio communication capabilities to various emergency agencies and an extendable external camera with 360-degree views.

The van can relay information and images to police headquarters in Peconic, Chief Flatley said. Additional space in the rear of the vehicle can be used for a six-person conference room, he said.

“It sounds like something out of an NCIS episode,” councilwoman Jill Doherty said. “It is very cool.”

However, there is a problem, Chief Flatley pointed out.

“I have no place to park it,” he told the board Tuesday morning.

Chief Flatley said he is currently working with the town’s department of public works to find a spot to park the 12-foot high vehicle during the winter months.

In the future, Chief Flatley hopes the existing fueling shed behind police headquarters can be converted to store the vehicle, once the town constructs its new consolidated fueling station at the highway department building.

“We are really just looking for four walls and a roof to house it,” he said.

The board voted to approve the new fueling station last year as a part of a $3.5 million upgrade to the highway department facility on Peconic Lane in Peconic. The renovations are expected to take up to nine months to complete, councilman William Ruland said Tuesday.

“That is probably the best use of [the police station’s fueling shed],” he said. “With a minimum amount of work you can repurposes it as a space for long time use.”

Chief Flatley said he hopes to start training his force on the new van on Plum Island next month.

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A Greenport man was arrested Monday after he verbally threatened the Greenport High School principal, Southold Town police said.

Michael O’Brien, 54, was charged with aggravated harassment, a misdemeanor, after police said he called Greenport High School around 8 a.m. Monday and left a voice mail saying he would “get his hands on” principal Leonard Skuggevik.

“He looked for trouble and he got it,” Mr. O’Brien is reported by police as saying.

During the lengthy phone call, police said, Mr. O’Brien also referred to guns and made “bang bang” sounds.

Following his arrest, Mr. O’Brien was arraigned Tuesday and released on his own recognizance, officials said.

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A 44-year-old Calverton man was arrested for driving while under the influence of drugs Saturday morning in Mattituck, Southold Town police said.

John C. Brophy was stopped for failing to maintain his lane at Route 48 and Elijahs Lane about 9:53 a.m., police said. Police determined Mr. Brophy was impaired by drugs and he was charged with the misdemeanor DWI.

He was transported to headquarters and held for arraignment.