Crime & Safety
Man Caught Driving Drunk In N. Patchogue With Child In Car: SCPD
The 40-year-old was arrested after allegedly driving drunk with three other people in his car, including a 9-year-old child, police say.
NORTH PATCHOGUE, NY - A Bay Shore man was arrested after he was caught driving drunk with a 9-year-old boy in his car in North Patchogue on Saturday night, according to Suffolk Police.
Wesley Charles, 40, was driving a 1998 Dodge pickup eastbound on Sunrise Highway near Exit 55 when a Highway Patrol officer notice he was failing to maintain a lane and pulled him over at 9:25 p.m., police said. There were three passengers in the Dodge, including the 9-year-old boy, police said.
Charles was arrested and charged with aggravated DWI, aggravated DWI with a child passenger 15-years-old or younger under Leandra’s Law and endangering the welfare of a child. The 9-year-old was released to the custody of his mother at the Fifth Precinct.
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He was held overnight at the Fifth Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on December 15.
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