Drunk Limo Driver Tries to Flee Police With Family Inside: Police

SAYVILLE, NY — A 64-year-old limo driver faces several charges, including one for felony DWI, after he drunkenly drove a family across Long Island Tuesday night, police said.

According to police, Michael Winn, of East Islip, picked up five passengers, including a 22-month-old boy, at John F. Kennedy International Airport and was driving a 2005 Lincoln limousine east on Sunrise Highway, between Exit 49 and Exit 50 in Sayville, when he approached the scene of an unrelated crash at about 8:55 p.m.

As traffic slowed, a driver traveling in front of the Lincoln alerted Highway Patrol Officer Thomas Joy that Winn was driving erratically and was possibly drunk driving, police said.

When Joy, who was on foot, asked Winn to pull over, Winn drove away and fled, police said.

Winn pulled over about a half a mile away after the passengers yelled at him to stop and as additional Highway Patrol units approached the limo, police said.

Winn, the owner of East Islip-based Crossroads Limo Service, was arrested on charges of aggravated DWI with a child passenger 15 years or younger, DWI, resisting arrest and endangering the welfare of a child.

The child, his 30-year-old parents and his grandparents, a 60 year-old man and 58-year-old woman, were not injured.

Winn was held overnight at the Fifth Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Wednesday.

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