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Yorktown PD: Woman Charged With DWI After Attempting To Leave Crash Scene Yorktown PD: Woman Charged With DWI After Attempting To Leave Crash Scene
Yorktown PD: Woman Charged With DWI After Attempting To Leave Crash Scene  A woman driving with a blood alcohol content triple the legal limit in Yorktown is facing charges after attempting to leave the scene of a crash when she failed to slow down at a stop sign, police said. Officers from the Yorktown Police Department were dispatched Commerce Street shortly before 8:45 p.m. on Wednesday night, where there was a report of a motor vehicle crash, where a driver attempted to flee the scene. A police investigation into the crash determined that Yorktown Heights resident Lisa Fitzpatrick, 55, was driving while intoxicated when she was involved in the crash, and she …

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by Zak Failla
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Man Faces DWI, Other Charges After Crashing Stolen Vehicle On Route 100 Man Faces DWI, Other Charges After Crashing Stolen Vehicle On Route 100
Man Faces DWI, Other Charges After Crashing Stolen Vehicle On Route 100 A motorist from Peekskill driving a stolen car from Ossining with a blood alcohol content nearly triple the legal limit was busted by Yorktown police after rolling over the vehicle on Route 100. The Yorktown Police Department received reports of the crash on Route 100 shortly after 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 7, leading to a joint investigation between their department and the Ossining Police Department, who were investigating reports of the stolen vehicle. Police said that the investigation determined that the driver, Hector Aranda-Sanchez, 24, was driving a car that had been stolen in Ossin…

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by Zak Failla
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Man Drove Drunk, Left Scene Of Northern Westchester Crash, Police Say Man Drove Drunk, Left Scene Of Northern Westchester Crash, Police Say
Man Drove Drunk, Left Scene Of Northern Westchester Crash, Police Say A 38-year-old Northern Westchester man was charged with two DWIs after Yorktown Police say he fled the scene of a car crash on Crow Hill Road near the Mount Kisco border on Monday afternoon. Victor Melchor of Croton was charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated driving while intoxicated with blood-alcohol content of .18 percent or more, both misdemeanors and leaving the scene of a property damage accident, a traffic infraction. Police were able to locate Melchor on Route 129 and found him to be intoxicated and driving without a license. He was arrested at the scene and transport…

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by Sam Barron
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Off-Duty Cop From Westchester Gets Prison Time For Crash That Killed Friend Off-Duty Cop From Westchester Gets Prison Time For Crash That Killed Friend
Off-Duty Cop From Westchester Gets Prison Time For Crash That Killed Friend WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - An off-duty New Rochelle police officer who was drinking before he crashed his vehicle last year, killing his best friend, has been sentenced for his role in the fatal incident. Harry Kyreakedes, 28, has been sentenced to a term between two and a half and seven and a half years in state prison after pleading guilty in October to a felony charge of first-degree vehicular manslaughter and aggravated driving while intoxicated. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr. said that at approximately midnight on Jan. 2, Kyreakedes was out drinking with fri…

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by Zak Failla