Crimes Nearby: County Corrections Officer Charged in Fatal DWI Crash

Port Jefferson

Dulce Salcedo, 48, of Port Jefferson Station, was arrested on Alden Lane in Port Jefferson Station on June 20 and charged with harassment. Police say that around 5 p.m. Salcedo tried to prevent her tenant from entering her apartment. Salcedo began fighting with the female tenant allegedly pulling her hair and punching her.

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A woman called police on June 23 to report that she had been attacked by what she described as a group of three black men and a Hispanic woman on East Main Street at about 1:50 a.m. She said that she punched her in the face by a male and the female pulled her hair and threw her to the ground. Then she was kicked. The three men and woman fled the scene and no injuries were reported.

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The manager of on Main Street in Port Jefferson reported that a about 2:15 a.m. on June 23 a short white man with a black eye and wearing a black polo shirt tossed the cash register from counter onto floor and then fled the restaurant.

Riverhead

Riverhead resident Christopher A. Dean, 41, was charged with DWI after police allege he struck and killed a pedestrian, identified as Efren Ramirez-Gomez, 32, in a Riverside accident Monday morning.

Southampton Town Police Chief William Wilson said Dean is employed as a Suffolk County corrections officer. Dean posted $10,000 bail and was released. He is expected back in Southampton Town Justice Court on July 25 at 9 a.m.

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A Flanders brawl got ugly on June 19 when a volunteer with the Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance Corp. tried to break up the fight.
According to Southampton Town police, a volunteer with the Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance Corp. reported that while on duty at the station house he heard a knock at the door. When he went to answer, he was approached by a man who had come to get help because he and his friends, who are hispanic, were being beaten by a group of white males.

When the complainant went outside to investigate, he said he saw the white males engaged in a physical altercation with the hispanic males. And, when he tried to intercede, one of the suspects allegedly hit him in the leg with a metal pipe and fled westbound on New York State Route 24, police said.

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An Islip Terrace taxi driver told Southampton Town police June 17 that he was held up with a gun in Flanders, by a black male, approximately 5 feet and 8 inches tall, 200 pounds and in his 30s.

According to an incident report, the taxi driver picked up a fare at Stony Brook University Medical Center who requested to be dropped off on Flanders Road. When the man was being dropped off, instead of paying he pulled a small handgun from his waist and demanded money. The man then fled on foot.

North Fork

Megan Combs, 21, of East Marion, was charged with petit larceny and two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance on June 25 at 3:21 p.m. after police responded to a report that Combs had been shoplifting from in Greenport, police said. Police observed Combs was exiting the store and was found to be in possession of numerous items she did not pay for, police said. She was also found to be in possession of methadone hydrochloride, and clonazepam, which she did not have a prescription for, police said. Combs was arrested and transported to police headquarters, where she was processed and released on bail.

Keith Whitenack, 36, of Levittown, was charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, leaving the scene of an accident and failing to yield the right-of-way on June 26 at 3:45 p.m. after his involvement in a car crash on Route 25 in Peconic, police said. Whitenack was traveling east on Route when he made a left turn and failed to yield right of way to Christine Watts-Gorman, 49, of Peconic, who was traveling west on Route 25. Whitenack struck Watts-Gorman's vehicle, then fled the scene on foot, police said. Whitenack was later apprehended by police and was found to have a suspended license. He was arrested and transported to police headquarters where he was processed and released on bail. There were no injuries, police said.