Crimes Nearby: Former Shelter Island Justice Accused of Grand Larceny

The following arrest information was supplied by the Suffolk County, Southold Town and Riverhead Police Departments. It does not indicate a conviction.

Port Jefferson

Xuerong Li, 42 was arrested on Oct. 20 at a day spa on Route 347 in Port Jefferson Station for allegedly practicing massage therapy without a license.

Yunxia Qi, 46 from New York was arrested Oct. 19 at a day spa on Route 347 in Port Jefferson Station for allegedly practicing massage therapy without a license.

Anthony Notarnicola, 21 from Port Jefferson Station was arrested Oct. 19 and charged with petty larceny for allegedly taking a 12-pack of beer from a King Kullen in Mount Sinai.

North Fork

A former Shelter Island Justice and her husband are accused of grand larceny — allegedly stealing more than a million dollars from an 89-year-old Water Mill woman suffering from dimentia — and the first day of the trial took place in Riverhead on Tuesday, according to a report from the Shelter Island Reporter.

Katherine Pope, who served as from 1998 to 2002, and her husband, Wayne, are alleged to have stole the money from the victim, Mary Abbot Estabrook, over a period of four years, according the the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office. Mr. Pope had worked as a handyman for Estabrook and had allegedly obtained power of attorney from her, then allegedly used that power to write checks to benefit himself. Estabrook died on July 4, 2009 at the age of 89. Click here to read the full report.

Victor Guerra-Guzman, 28, of Mattituck was charged with driving while intoxicated on Monday at 2:55 a.m. after police stopped him for a traffic violation on Route 25 in Mattituck, police said. Police also reported finding Guzman's license was suspended and charged him with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. He was arrested and held overnight at police headquarters in Peconic pending arraignment.

Mark Lacy, 56, of Bayport was charged with driving while intoxicated on Saturday at 10:27 p.m., after police stopped him for leaving the roadway and driving onto the grassy median on Route 48 in Southold, police said. Lacy, who was heading east, was found to be intoxicated after failing several roadside sobriety tests, police said. He was arrested and held overnight pending arraignment at Southold Town Police headquarters in Peconic.

Brant Ovsianik, 27 of Cutchogue and Spencer Stewart, 31, of Riverhead were charged with third-degree burglary, fourth-degree grand larceny and third-degree criminal mischief on Friday after a police investigation revealed that the two men allegedly stole $40 from East End Auto Repair in Cutchogue and damaged several vehicles at the location, police said.

The owner of the shop had reported to police earlier this week that someone had forced open a rear door of the shop and stolen the money, police said. The owner also reported that the suspects removed car batteries from eight vehicles and removed a car stereo, cutting wiring and causing more that $400 in damage, police said. Ovsianik and Stewart were located and found with the money and batteries, police said.

Riverhead

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.
Police said they discovered that Hambrick, who is from Monroe, N.Y., 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.

Christopher Dopkins, 48, of Mount Sinai was arrested and charged with DWI on Oct. 15, after he was allegedly caught driving a party bus while nearly three times the legal limit, according to police.

Dopkins, who worked for Red Carpet Limousines, was driving a wine tour bus with 25 passengers on Sound Avenue when a man at his company called to speak to Dopkins. The Red Carpet official thought Dopkins sounded intoxicated and called police, said Lt. Robert Peeker.

Police also received a call from a witness who said the bus driver drove over a traffic sign, Peeker said. Police pulled Dopkins over in the parking lot of East Wind, where he blew a .21 blood alcohol content, police said.

"[The passengers] were going out to have a good time so they could drink, but unfortunately he violated that trust," Peeker said. He added that no children were on the bus at the time.

Dopkins was charged with Aggravated DWI, a felony, and held for arraignment.

Robbery

A Riverhead man told police that two unknown men put him in a chokehold, stole money from his wallet, threw him to he ground and punched him in the head, according to a police report.

The alleged victim told police he was walking on Segal Avenue in Riverhead when two men approached him and "asked him if he wanted to do business," according to a report. When the victim said no and began to walk away, he was grabbed from behind and put in a chokehold, police said. One of the men reached into the victim's pocket and took out his phone and wallet, emptying the wallet of about $348 dollars in cash. The two men then allegedly threw the victim to the ground and punched him in the head.

The two suspects were allegedly last seen by the victim getting into a black vehicle occupied by two other unknown suspects, police said.

The victim reported no injuries after the mugging, according to a police report. Police said they are still investigating the incident.