New York Drunk Drivng Articles

The head of the NYC Ballet was arrested for suspicion of driving while intoxicated in New York early January 1. Peter Martins was stopped at a sobriety checkpoint in Yonkers just before 2:00 am Saturday.

A spokesperson with the Westchester County Department of Public Safety says that Martins was one of 14 motorists arrested for New York DWI at different checkpoints that evening. Martins was charged with a misdemeanor as it is his first offense.

Martins, 64, was the principal dancer for the city ballet company before becoming balletmaster in 1981. Since then he has also assumed creative direction and choreographed more than 80 ballets. The company declined to talk about the incident.

UPDATE: Ballet Director New York DWI

Accused of NY DWI, Ballet Director Pleads Guilty to Lesser Offense
Peter Martins admits to DWAI in New York

The director of the New York City Ballet has entered a guilty plea to driving while ability impaired, and was fined $300. Peter Martins was arrested on January 1 at a sobriety checkpoint in Westchester County. He was originally charged with the more serious offense of driving while intoxicated in New York. DWAI involving alcohol is considered a traffic offense rather than a criminal act. It is typically charged when an officer suspects impairment and the motorist has a BAC below 0.08%.

Police say that Martin’s 2005 Bentley had damage to a passenger side tire, indicating possible striking of a curb. Martins reportedly failed several field sobriety tests and refused to submit to a breath test to check his BAC.

The ballet company has said it is glad the issue has been resolved. Martins, 64, joined the NYC Ballet in 1970 as a principal dancer and he became its director in 1990.

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Police say a man drag racing in a dump truck was driving while intoxicated when he slammed into an oncoming vehicle, killing an elderly man.

Witnesses say that just before 5:00 pm Everado Nieto was driving one of two landscaping trucks stopped at a traffic light, apparently drag racing. Nieto was heading eastbound on Jericho Turnpike in a 2000 Ford dump truck when he crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with a Mercedes Benz. The 86-year old male passenger in the Mercedes was killed. His 84-year old wife, who was driving, survived with critical injuries. A 63-year old passenger in the dump truck was also seriously injured.

Nieto, 32, was charged with New York DWI, aggravated vehicular homicide, vehicular manslaughter, assault and reckless driving and aggravated vehicular assault. He was being held on $500,000 bail after an arraignment last Tuesday. His driving record shows that his license had been suspended for 90 days last year after an arrest for driving while impaired and reckless driving in New York City. Nieto did have a valid license at the time of the crash.

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John Katonah, the owner of a Christian radio station in upstate New York, was arrested in Palm Beach County Florida on an outstanding warrant and extradited to New York. Katonah is said to have violated a judge's protection order requiring him to stay away from his family.

In addition to violation of the protection order, Katonah recently was charged with criminal trespass after he was discovered in a neighbor's barn, and with driving while intoxicated in New York.

Katonah is a former town councilmember in Montgomery, New York. He was arrested for reckless endangerment and discharging a firearm in 2005, and for criminal mischief associated with a domestic dispute in 2008.

On the current violation, he remains in Orange County NY jail on $10,000 bond.

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An off-duty officer with the New York Police Department was charged with DWI early Thanksgiving Day. Anthony Rodriguez was found around 3:00 am asleep at the wheel of his car, parked in a no-standing zone. He refused to submit to a breath test and the arrest report said he had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech.

Rodriguez is the second officer in a week to be arrested for suspicion of driving while intoxicated in New York, and the fifth officer booked on criminal charges in the same time frame.

NYPD has suspended Rodriguez pending an investigation.

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New York police stopped a Range Rover driven by football player Braylon Edwards around 5:15 am near the Lincoln Tunnel for having window tinting that was too dark. When issuing a ticket, the officer detected a strong smell of alcohol coming from the vehicle and initiated a New York DWI arrest. Edwards reportedly submitted to a breath test and had a blood alcohol content of 0.16%, twice the legal limit for intoxication.

Edwards, 27, is a wide receiver for the New York Jets. The general manager of the Jets expressed disappointment in Braylon's actions, saying he should have used the Player Protect Program that provides car service to players who wish to go partying. The team is reviewing the arrest with the NFL to determine appropriate discipline.

Edwards was traded from the Cleveland Browns to the Jets last year, two days after being arrested for punching a friend of basketball player LeBron James outside a Cleveland nightclub. In January, Edwards pleaded no contest to aggravated disorderly conduct and was placed on probation, fined $1000 and given a 180-day suspended jail sentence.

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A man who sped past a state police cruiser was arrested for driving while intoxicated in New York. Around 4:15 Saturday morning, Diego E. Guzman passed a moving police cruiser on the Sprain Brook Parkway at 77 mph. The state trooper made a traffic stop and then initiated an investigation into drunk driving.

Guzman, 21, from Croton-on-Hudson, reportedly had a blood alcohol content twice the legal limit. He was booked for NY DWI and is due in court on September 24.

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Former New York City police officer Andrew Kelly admitted he was intoxicated when he struck and killed a Brooklyn woman last year. On Wednesday he entered a guilty plea to the felony charge of vehicular manslaughter. He also apologized directly to the victim's husband and father.

Kelly had been partying with three friends on a Saturday evening in September 2009, though it was reported that he stopped drinking at 9:45 pm because he was the designated driver. Around 1:00 am, he struck Vionique Valnord with his Jeep as she stood in the middle of the street waiting for a taxi. Kelly stopped and rendered aid until paramedics arrived. Valnord died later at a hospital.

Some police officers responding to the accident said that Kelly reeked of alcohol and had slurred speech and glassy eyes, however three precinct cops gave Kelly gum and water and claimed he did not appear drunk. Kelly refused to submit to a breath test. A warrant for a blood alcohol test was secured more than seven hours after the accident, and at that time Kelly's BAC registered zero. Kelly's New York DWI defense attorney denied his client was intoxicated.

Following Wednesday's plea, Kelly was sentenced to 90 days in jail and agreed to undergo alcohol treatment. Prior to the plea deal with prosecution, he could have been sentenced to seven years in prison. Kelly resigned from the NYPD on September 3. The three officers who assisted Kelly were suspended from the force after an internal affairs investigation found they had participated in a cover-up.

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A Cayuga County man was arrested for driving while intoxicated in New York, while driving a golf cart. New York State Police initially investigated the theft of a golf cart from a local golf course. Troopers said that Todd P. Ranke had taken the cart and driven home, but then determined that the cart belonged to Rankes family so no larceny charges were filed.

However, Ranke was determined to be intoxicated and was charged with felony NY DWI, aggravated DWI for having an elevated blood alcohol content, and aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle.

Ranke, 43, was issued an appearance ticket. He is scheduled to answer the charges in Locke Town Court on September 15.

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Deputies with the Gennesee County Sheriff's Office stopped a man in Bethany after a tip from another motorist. Reportedly Duane Bush was weaving on a road in his van when the right rear tire fell off. Bush continued to drive for eleven miles.

A breath test showed that Bush, 61, had a blood alcohol content three times the legal limit. He was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated in New York and operating a motor vehicle without a valid license. Bush's driver's license had expired 33 years ago.

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Frank Simone, of Mountaindale, was scheduled to appear in court to face charges of aggravated drunk driving in New York, misdemeanor assault and child endangerment. When he showed up for a 1:00 pm court appearance, Simone was visibly intoxicated. The judge cautioned him several times for being belligerent before finding him in contempt of court.

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