Crime & Safety
DA: Greenport Man Indicted For Fatal DWI Crash
The man was arrested for the crash that occurred earlier last month.
A Suffolk County grand jury has indicted a 71-year-old Greenport man arrested for drunk driving after a fatal crash on December 6 on Route 25 in Greenport, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said.
Crime lab testing of John A. Costello’s blood showed the defendant had a blood-alcohol level of 0.17 after the crash, according to the DA.
Costello drove his pickup truck into the oncoming lane, police said.
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A passenger in the vehicle Costello struck, Miguel Bartolone, 31, of Peconic, died of his injuries at Stony Brook University Hospital.
Costello is scheduled to be arraigned on the indictment on February 11 in Riverhead before State Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho.
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