Blog Posts in April, 2011
Posted on Apr 30, 2011 By Karen
Troopers charged three people with DWI during traffic stops and investigations today, state police said. A 31-year-old man from Islandia, N.Y., was charged with DWI on I-87 in Ardsley, police said. A ...
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Posted on Apr 28, 2011 By Karen
Troopers charged three motorists with DWI or DWAI during stops and investigations in Westchester and Rockland counties, state police said today. A 22-year-old man from Mahopac was charged with driving ...
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Posted on Apr 26, 2011 By Karen
An Ossining man has become the first convicted drunken driver in Westchester County to be indicted for allegedly circumventing the ignition interlock law , according to the Westchester County D.A.'s ...
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Posted on Apr 25, 2011 By Karen
An alleged drunken driver was arrested after officers on Long Island caught him speeding at more than 100 mph on the Long Island Expressway, Nassau County police said. A Highway Patrol officer clocked ...
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Posted on Apr 21, 2011 By Karen
A 30-year-old sanitation worker was arrested for DWI after he smashed his garbage truck into a car on a Brooklyn street, authorities said. The sanitation worker hit the a Hyundai Elantra head-on when ...
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Posted on Apr 20, 2011 By Karen
A 30-year-old man from the Bronx , told a Tuckahoe police officer he had never heard of Tuckahoe, as he sat inside his car which was on the curb and in the shrubs. He told the officer he had three ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2011 By Karen
A Mahopac woman was stopped for speeding about 2:00 a.m. on Route 6. The officers suspected she was intoxicated and asked her to step out of the vehicle for a field-sobriety test . That's when the ...
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Posted on Apr 17, 2011 By Karen
New York State police will enforce the "Move Over Act," which will require drivers to use caution to avoid hitting an authorized emergency vehicle which is stopped or standing on the shoulder of a ...
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Posted on Apr 15, 2011 By Karen
A Carmel man was charged with DWI Thursday night after he struck a New York State police car that had been stopped on the side of the Taconic State Parkway, state police said today. He was also cited ...
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Posted on Apr 14, 2011 By Karen
State police said that a Bronx man faces a felony charge after DWI with a child inside his car. The 44-year-old was stopped on the Sprain Brook Parkway on Wednesday and was found to be driving drunk ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2011 By Karen
A 36-year-old man from Bridgeport was stopped and arrested for DWI near Main and Church streets in White Plains on Sunday after police noticed he was driving a car with a missing right front tire. ...
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Posted on Apr 11, 2011 By Karen
A 30-year-old Peekskill woman was arrested and charged under Leandra's Law after she was accused of DWI with three children inside the car. Leandra's Law makes it a felony to drive drunk with ...
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Posted on Apr 10, 2011 By Karen
Prosecutors are reviewing at least 13 DWI arrests by one Long Island highway patrol officer who they say had been disciplined for making similar charges without probable cause. Newsday reports that ...
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Posted on Apr 7, 2011 By Karen
A 19-year-old drunken driver, who killed an aspiring lawyer, avoided prison thanks to the victim's mother. The mother was bent on vengeance after her 28-year-old son was struck and kill ed in 2008. ...
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Posted on Apr 7, 2011 By Karen
An off-duty police officer was found to have been DWI after crashing her vehicle on the Upper West Side, authorities said Thursday. The off-duty officer was involved in a single car wreck on Wednesday ...
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Posted on Apr 5, 2011 By Karen
A woman was arrested for DWI after she fled the scene of a three-vehicle crash with her 5-year-old son inside the, Suffolk County police said. She was driving a Dodge northbound on Centershore Rd. ...
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Posted on Apr 4, 2011 By Karen
Two drunken motorists were at more than twice the legal BAC limit in separate investigations over the weekend in Carmel and Mahopac , Chief Michael Johnson said. A 47-year-old man from Putnam Valley ...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2011 By Karen
Two people were charged with felony DWI (with children inside the car) in recent incidents in Southeast and Putnam Valley , police said today. A 27-year-old woman from Crompond was charged after an ...
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