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A5 The East Hampton Star, December 27, 2012 POLICE & COURTS D.W.I. No Memory For Numbers B Y T.E. M C M ORROW An East Hampton Town police offi- cer spotted Carlos R. Hernandez, 45, of Northwest Woods driving erratically at a little after 3 a.m. on Dec. 15 and stopped his 1997 Dodge on Stephen Hand’s Path near Wheelock Road. The officer wrote in his arrest report that Mr. Hernandez had swerved across the double yellow lines. Upon questioning, the officer decid- ed Mr. Hernandez might be intoxicat- ed, because he smelled alcohol and the driver’s eyes were bloodshot. Mr. Her- nandez was unsteady on his feet when asked to step out of the car, according to the report, and failed standard roadside sobriety tests before being charged with driving while intoxicated. Back at police headquarters, he con- sented to take the Intoxilyzer 5000 breath test, which records the alcohol level in one’s blood based upon a single breath in- to a tube. Refusal to take the test results in the immediate suspension of driving privileges in New York State. Mr. Her- nandez’s level was recorded at .15 of 1 per- cent, almost twice the legal limit. Speaking to him that afternoon through the court translator Tanya Valverde, Justice Lisa R. Rana asked Mr. Hernandez, who appeared distraught, if he’d made a phone call. “I’ve given you multiple opportuni- ties,” she said. “He doesn’t have a lawyer. He wants to call his boss, but nobody answers,” the translator told the court. Justice Rana asked if he’d tried call- ing a friend. “His phone is at his home,” Ms. Valverde answered. Mr. Hernandez had been arrested just blocks from where he lives. “You can’t remember any of your friends’ numbers?” “No,” was the answer. “I find that astounding,” Justice Rana said. She explained to Mr. Hernandez that she would enter a plea of not guilty on his behalf, to protect his rights, and set bail at $750. Besides the D.W.I. charge, he faces an aggravated charge of driving without a license. His license was sus- pended in 2011 for failure to pay a fine, as well as failure to answer a summons issued in Queens. Village and town police between them reported only one arrest for drunk- en driving last week. That report was not ready for release as of Monday. Police Search for Driver B Y T.E. M C M ORROW An East Hampton Village officer pa- trolling Montauk Highway last Friday evening found an unoccupied 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee that had come to rest in woods just off the highway near Stephen Hand’s Path. The SUV had struck a utility pole before slamming in- to the trees, according to the police re- port. The driver was nowhere to be found, but the officer heard noises in the woods that sounded like someone running away. East Hampton Town police joined the village force in searching for the driver, and a county police helicopter was brought in as well, using heat im- aging to find the driver in the dark. It was to no avail. Police determined the name of the vehicle’s owner through a computer check of the license plate and visited his residence on Buell Lane. He was not there, they reported, but an interview with him has since been scheduled. As of yesterday, it was not known to have taken place. Police impounded the Jeep. Brian Buckhout of Springs was head- ed south on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road a little after noon on Dec. 19 when, he told police, a deer ran in front of his 2003 Dodge. Mr. Buckhout was unable to avoid the animal, which collided with the front of the car on the driver’s side, rolled over the hood, and smashed into the windshield, shattering it. The animal was dead. Mr. Buckhout was shaken up but unhurt, according to the report, and was able to drive away, sans windshield. Police released five other car-versus- deer reports this week, with no dis- cernible pattern. The incidents occurred across the township, throughout the day and into the night. Only one vehicle, a 2008 Porsche driv- en by A.M. Capoferri, no address given, had to be towed. That accident hap- pened on Friday in the early evening, when two deer wandered out onto Springy Banks Road in East Hampton. The driver swerved to avoid the ani- mals, but struck a tree, damaging the passenger side of the Porsche. Another accident report involved a car driven by Segunda Loja of East Hamp- ton, who was turning left from the high- way onto Oak Lane in Amagansett when his 1994 Honda was hit in the rear by a 2007 Chrysler being driven by Ray- mond Tierney of Montauk. Mr. Tier- ney’s passenger, Loretta Tierney, was taken to Southampton Hospital com- plaining of a bruised neck. That acci- dent happened early on the evening of Dec. 14. Also on the Logs Amagansett Ian Irving of Old Stone Highway discovered his 1982 Mercedes Benz missing from his driveway on the afternoon of Dec. 15. He had left the keys in the car, he told police, who searched and found the vehicle parked on Accabonac Road, keys still inside. East Hampton Village A metal hand truck was left in the middle of Gay Lane in front of the post office one afternoon last week. There were no identifying marks. Po- lice took it to the lost-and-found at headquarters. A box containing $187.50 worth of Hanukkah presents was stolen on the evening of Dec. 15 from a car parked in front of John Papas restau- rant in the Reutershan lot. The vehicle may have been left unlocked, Lisa Rattray told police. Eight days later, two days before Christmas, John Pa- pas came in to open the restaurant and discovered that the two small Christ- mas trees on ether side of the front door had been stolen. A woman returning to her locker on Dec. 17 after a workout at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter found her black fleece jacket missing, with her car keys in. it. She suggested to police that someone might have taken it by accident, and left her contact information at the front desk. The lobby of the post office served as a bedroom for a homeless man in the early hours of Dec. 19. Police advised the man that he could not sleep there, and he left. On Saturday afternoon, three days before Christmas, a black dog and a white dog were seen running together down Pantigo Road. An officer went to investigate, but the dogs were nowhere to be found. Northwest Woods A flat-screen television set went missing from a Semaphore Road house at some point during the past month. George Michail returned home on Dec. 18 after being away for a month to find the TV gone. He told police the house had been burglarized once before. The detective squad is in- vestigating. A Marion Lane man, Carlos Burns, woke up Sunday morning to dis- cover that the signpost bearing his name by his driveway had been ripped out of the ground and tossed into a neighbor’s yard. Mr. Burns told police that Marion Lane has recently been a frequent target of petty vandalism. Springs Natalya Dyakovskaya returned to her Glade Road residence on Dec. 18 after being away for two weeks to find that someone had been staying in the house. An oven burner had been left on, and a laptop and two routers were missing from the living room. A bottle of Absolut vodka was gone as well, from the freezer. Continued from A1 contact information needed and guaran- tees that it can follow through, it’s added into the overall plan. “It’s disaster-specific, also agency-spe- cific,” said the captain. “What’s the beach manager doing? What’s the facility super doing? What’s the commander of the po- lice department doing?” “Everybody knows what everybody else is doing. That solves a lot of turf and communication issues.” Mr. Foster talked about the use of per- sonnel, saying that their deployment across disciplines is essential in an emer- gency. Traffic control officers, who would not be out in the streets writing tickets during a hurricane, might be deployed in- stead to answer phones, he said. “The goal is to minimize the impact of the emer- gency. These are the things our commu- nity has to have.” Planning for a storm starts with the weather forecast. The National Weather Service issues PowerPoint presentations in the lead-up to any storm, which continue throughout the day. Any department that has questions can call in during the pres- entation and speak directly to the people preparing the reports. Customized alerts are sent out accord- ing to the needs of each area. “You design your own alerts,” Captain Tracey ex- plained. “I draw an area around the Island, relative to us. It is very specific and very tailored. Each person using the system can change their zones.” When an alert comes in, Captain Tracey sends out e-mails to essential responders. In the case of Sandy, East Hampton had a week’s warning. The emergency planners went through three phases: a preliminary meeting, followed by a major briefing, fol- lowed by implementation. In the case of the police, schedules were readjusted, with extra overtime added. The various departments brought in extra personnel to sleep in the building, in or- der to be on hand, and prepared “ready meals” to feed them. One important asset deployed in crisis situations is the village’s communications truck. While Sandy’s winds were howling, the fear was that the radio tower in Mon- tauk might lose service, as happened last year during Hurricane Irene. But for the mobile truck, it would then be next to im- possible to dispatch radio signals to emer- gency workers in Montauk. (The prob- lem is Hither Hills, which blocks the sig- nals from the other four towers in the town.) But the truck — which contains radio transmitters to cover the different ranges and frequencies that could be called on in an emergency as well as an onboard gen- erator, various computers and work sta- tions, and even a telescoping 21-foot tow- er for shooting live video — can act as a dispatch center, filling the gap of a failed tower. It was stationed in Montauk during Irene and proved its worth when the tow- er there went down; during Sandy it was again stationed in the easternmost hamlet but this time the tower held. East Hampton Town had been planning its own emergency planning center, said Captain Tracey, but things went so smoothly during Sandy that the two mu- nicipalities may instead team up perma- nently out of the Cedar Street headquar- Working Together Against a Storm Someone spent the weeks before Christmas destroying a number of bicycles that had been left locked to racks at the East Hampton Village train station. 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