Crime & Safety
Speed Enforcement Detail Yields DWI Arrest
The alleged drunk driver also was charged with criminal possession of a weapon.
SCARSDALE, NY — State Police nabbed one alleged drunk driver during a Speed Enforcement Detail Thursday on the Sprain Brook Parkway in Yonkers. Police said that after stopping a vehicle for a driver not wearing a seat belt, Joseph Vartuli, 21, of Mount Vernon, was arrested for driving while intoxicated and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Police said he provided an allegedly positive breath sample of 0.12 percent blood-alcohol content during processing.
Vartuli was later arraigned in the City of Yonkers Court.
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The detail was held between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Thursday.
It yielded the following results:
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- Driving While Intoxicated Tickets - 1
- Penal Law Tickets - 1
- Speed Tickets: 31
- Other V&T Law Tickets: 15
- Seatbelt Tickets - 5
- Move Over Law Tickets - 3
- Using a Cell Phone While Driving - 5
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