Man Arrested in Hit-and-Run Boat Crash

A Selden man has been charged with leaving the scene of a boating accident involving injury stemming from a crash in the Patchogue Sunday night.

Police say Mark Tricarico, 31, surrendered to Fifth Precinct Crime Section officers Thursday around 1:30 p.m. Tricarico was released on bail and will be arraigned at a later date.

Suffolk Police and the Patchogue Fire Department responded to a boat crash at about 9:20 p.m. Sunday. Police said Tricarico’s 23-foot 1987 Sea Ray crashed into the west jetty at the entrance of the Patchogue River.

A Farmingdale woman on the boat, 29-year-old Danielle Virgilio, was transported to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in East Patchogue for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

Witnesses reported that up to seven people were on the boat at the time of the crash. Several of the boat’s occupants were located nearby and interviewed by responding officers but were uncooperative, police said.

Photo by Eric Arthur Blair

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