Southold Town Police arrested a homeless man this morning and charged him with criminal trespass, a misdemeanor.
Police said that Richard Kurdt, 48, entered the North Fork Roasting Co. on Main Road in Southold around 8 a.m. despite being warned by police to stay off the premises after a previous incident occurred there on Oct. 7.
Jess Dunne, co-owner of the North Fork Roasting Co., posted a warning on Facebook on Oct. 7 to other business owners to look out for Kurdt. Kurdt, she said, had refused to leave her business’ premises after it had closed and was causing a disturbance outside the building at 4:45 a.m. Police responded to the scene and a restraining order was issued, Dunne wrote.
Tuesday morning an employee at North Fork Roasting Co. phoned police after he entered the business and Kurdt was arrested a short distance away from the location and brought to headquarters for processing, police said.
Kurdt has several arrests dating back over a decade.
In 2006, he was charged with hurling stones at a U.S. Army recruitment center in Times Square and was charged with criminal mischief, according to the New York Post.
In December 2015 he was arrested twice, once for unlawfully entering Greenport Village Hall and stealing coins, flashlights and earphones and again for giving police a false name to avoid outstanding warrants after he was found sleeping and urinating at a Greenport ferry terminal. He was arrested earlier the same year for threatening to assault a man at a Mattituck 7-Eleven.
Editor’s note: A criminal charge is an accusation. By law, a person charged with a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
