Northport Police Blotter: Woman Charged With DWI

Northport NY

13 September, 2021

3:11 PM

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NORTHPORT, NY — Check out some recent police incidents for the Northport Village area from Sept. 6 through Sept. 12. The Northport Police Department posted the following information. All charges are accusations and do not signify guilt. Arrests Nicolas Cortes, 32, of Kings Park, was driving a 2004 Ford F-150 with a temporary New Jersey license plate when he made a left turn from Woodbine Avenue onto Fort Salonga Road without any headlights on after dusk at 9:53 p.m. Sept. 7, police said. Police interviewed Cortes and found out he bought the temporary plate for $170 from a friend in Hicksville and knew it to be fraudulent but needed the truck for work, police said. New Jersey State Police confirmed the license plate was not in their system. Cortes was arrested and charged with second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, operating unregistered motor vehicle on highway, operating out of class and equipment: headlights.Isabella Staples, 23, of Northport, was driving a 2008 Chevy eastbound on Fort Salonga Road when she crossed over the solid white line around 2:50 a.m. Sept. 8, police said. She then turnednorthbound on Waterside Avenue and swerved in and out of her lane, crossing over the solid white line and the solid double yellow lines multiple times, police said. When police stopped Staples, she hit the curb with the passenger side tires while trying to pull over, police said. Staples's breath smelled of alcohol, her eyes were glassy and bloodshot, her speech was slurred and sluggish, she was very unsteady on her feet and performed poorly on several field sobriety tests, police said. She consented to a breath test, police said. Staples was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, driving while intoxicated: BAC reading and two counts of unsafe lane change. Incidents Police responded to Village Park for a report of a man exposing himself on Sept. 7. The man had ripped his pants and didn't realize there was a hole in them.A dog owner was warned and admonished after they left two dogs in a parked car that was not running by Village Park on Sept. 7. The dogs were in good health, according to police.A deer was impaled on a fence on Dolphin Lane on Sept. 8. Police euthanized the deer and notified the highway department to remove it.A vehicle parked on someone's lawn on Soper Avenue was removed after police contacted its owner on Sept. 8.A woman told police she was bit by a dog on Main Street on the morning of Sept. 10. She said she was dropping off a library book for a friend when she was bitten. The bite broke the skin and caused bleeding. She was treated for a dog bite at a local hospital.A dog got loose on Cherry Street around 8:30 a.m. Sept. 11. Police searched the area but could not find the dog.A group of boaters was reportedly yelling obscenities and harassing the dockmaster at Village Dock around 2:30 p.m. Sept. 11. Police interviewed the group aboard the "Sweet Melissa," and the group denied any harassment or yelling. Police told the boaters that the dockmaster was in control of the dock regardless of how they felt about her.Two males reportedly boarded boats at Northport Village Dock around 4:30 a.m. Sept. 12. The males told police that while walking on the dock, they got in an argument with the person who called police on them, who accused them of trying to get onto boats. The caller told police the two males appeared to be trying to board boats and that when he confronted them, they became confrontational and began cursing at him, police said. Both males denied any wrongdoing and allowed police to search them and their vehicle. No contraband or stolen property was found. Both males agreed to leave.