Drug Possession, Larceny, Assault

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, New York 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.

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.

A Miller Place man was stopped on the Northern State Parkway near Glen Cove Road Thursday morning for moving unsafely from lane to lane, New York State Police said.
When stopped at approximately 11:20 a.m., the trooper noticed the driver, Jeffrey Albano, 47, of Miller Place, had constricted pupils, droopy eyelids and slow speech. After failing sobriety tests, he was arrested for DWI Drugs. A search of the vehicle then revealed eight decks of heroin, police said.

Albano complained of pain in his feet and legs while in custody and was taken to Nassau University Medical Center for observation, where he began spitting at members of the hospital staff and using offensive language, according to police.
He was arrested for DWI Drugs, seventh degree criminal possession of a controlled substance (a misdemeanor), disorderly conduct and traffic violations.