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LI Woman Who Fled Scene Of Crash Injuring Pedestrian Charged With DWI Under Leandra's Law
A Long Island woman who fled the scene of a crash in which a pedestrian was injured was driving drunk with a child inside the vehicle, police say.
It happened on Saturday night, Nov. 16 in Wyandanch.
Tasena Jennings, 33, of West Babylon, was driving a 1999 Lincoln Navigator northbound on N. 20th Street when the vehicle struck an occupied, parked 2003 GMC, causing the GMC to strike a pedestrian in front of 127 N. 20th St. at 7:10 p.m., Suffolk County Police said. Jennings then fled the scene, according to police.
Jayvon Smith, 19, of Wyandanch, who was inside the GMC, was not inj…
Mom Talks About Twins' Hot-Car Deaths With Dr. Phil
For the first time since her 1-year-old twins died in a hot car in July, the Hudson Valley mother of the infants tells her tragic story on national TV.
Rockland resident Marissa Rodriguez, 37, of New City, will appear on the Dr. Phil show, at 3 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, on WCBS-TV Channel 2. The program will air again at 8 p.m. on WLNY-TV 10/55.
The twins, Phoneix and Luna, died after their father, Juan Rodriguez, drove to his job on July 26, at the Veterans Administration hospital in the Bronx, and forgot to drop the infants off at their daycare in Yonkers.
Rodriguez, 39, and an Iraq War …
Westchester Pastor Charged In Brutal Killing Of Estranged Wife, DA Says
A 63-year-old pastor from Westchester has been charged with murder, manslaughter and other charges for allegedly running over his estranged wife and then hacking her with a machete.
Victor Mateo, of Yonkers, a pastor at the Christian Congregation The Redeemer Church in the Bronx, was arraigned Tuesday, Oct. 22, for the murder which took place on Thursday, Oct. 3, said Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark.
According to an investigation, at about 6:45 a.m. on Oct. 3, Mateo parked his vehicle near the home of Noelia Mateo, 58, on Ellsworth Avenue in Throgs Neck.
When h…
Suffolk Woman Arrested After Child Left Home Alone Allegedly Starts Two Fires
A woman was arrested after a 7-year-old left home alone on Long Island allegedly started two fires.
Nora Soto-Cordova, 32, of Northampton in Suffolk County, was arrested at 10:45 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28, after Southampton Police responded to a residence in Northampton for a house fire, said Southampton Police Lt. Susan Ralph.
Officers spoke to a resident who found a fire had been started in his bedroom and another in the kitchen area, Ralph said.
Riverhead Fire Department responded, however, the fire had been extinguished.
Southampton detectives and the Southampton Town F…
