Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a 10-term upstate Democrat, thought that news of his retirement would be the big Hinchey story of the week. But his wife, a state lobbyist, was arrested for not only driving while intoxicated—she was also hit with a texting-while-driving charge. Allison Lee-Hinchley reportedly admitted to cops that she was texting when she got into a car crash in Albany on Wednesday. more ›

How many more of the Bronx's Assistant District Attorneys must be arrested for drunk driving before Bronx DA Robert Johnson makes his office watch one of those horrific driver's ed videos? 26-year-old Assistant District Attorney Rafael Urena was stopped at a checkpoint on East 61st Street in Manhattan at 3:40 a.m. on Saturday morning and allegedly registered a .081 BAC on a Breathalyzer. Sources tell the Post that Urena told officers he was aware of the BAC monitoring device: "Yeah, I know what it is; I'm a Bronx assistant district attorney." more ›

On Friday night, NJ man was arrested on drunk driving charges after the authorities received numerous calls about "erratic driving" from a Volvo on Route 440. When a Port Authority police officer intercepted him near Outerbridge Crossing, Stuart Stott allegedly admitted to having five or six drinks at the Pinstripe Bowl. And the police officer also found Stott's four-year-old son in the backseat. Fortunately, no one was injured. more ›

In a valiant attempt to save the deer he drunkenly hit with his car, Andrew Caswell picked up the injured animal, loaded it into his backseat, and was rushing it to the hospital before being rudely interrupted by cops. It did not end well for the deer. more ›

New York Public Library president Anthony Marx is not going to be driving again for awhile. Marx pleaded guilty today to driving while intoxicated back in November. No more sloppy Sunday afternoon drives for Marx! more ›

An off-duty cop was busted this week for drunk driving after she took an eight-mile cruise down a Long Island parkway...in the wrong direction. more ›

A fight outside a Long Island bar resulted in a shooting—and a drunk driving arrest for the woman who was driving a shooting victim to the hospital. Suffolk County police say that Nyasha Hunter, 21, was driving on Sunrise Service Road when she crashed her car into a guardrail at Saxon Avenue. more ›

The holiday season has started, along with lots of revelry—and Long Island police are ready. Suffolk County police made nine drunk driving arrests last night with increased patrols, which will last through New Year's Day. more ›

MTV is planning a special one-hour tribute to former Jackass star Ryan Dunn, who died last June in a drunk-driving accident in Pennsylvania. The show will air on November 28 at 10:30 p.m, and will include appearances from Dunn cronies Johnny Knoxville, Rob Dyrdek, Wee Man, Chris Pontius, Jeff Tremaine and Bam Margera. more ›

A New Jersey bus driver probably is looking for a new job after students on her bus busted her for driving them while drunk earlier this week. The Courier Post reports that police in Westampton, New Jersey, have arrested Carole Crockett, 46, and charged her with 25 counts of driving under the influence with a minor, driving under the influence on school property, disorderly conduct and another 25 counts of endangering the welfare of a child for good measure. Luckily, nobody was hurt on Carole Crockett's wild ride. more ›

A former chief fire marshal for the FDNY has allegedly been granted a generous plea agreement for a DWI charge he incurred in December. Louis Garcia, who the Daily News calls a "legendary FDNY figure" before his retirement in 2008, allegedly ran a stop sign near his home in Whitestone and crashed his Mercedes into an unmarked police car. more ›

A Long Island man was arrested by police yesterday and charged with drunk driving with his two-year-old son in the car. Christopher Weiss, 29, was driving his Ford Focus westbound along route 25 in Suffolk County when another driver called 911 to complain he was driving erratically. Certainly the fact that he was driving a car with only three working tires wasn't helping the situation. more ›

Convicted drunk drivers may not be able to merely scrap their cars to avoid an ignition interlock breathalyzer and the long arm of the law. A new bill would require those convicted of DWI who don't install the devices to wear alcohol-detection anklets. The bill comes after Daily News reported that only 21% of those recently convicted of DWI in the city install the mandatory devices. A third of DWI-convicted drivers statewide comply with the law. "We believe many of them feel they can simply wait it out for six months," Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice tells the paper. more ›

New York State Police say that an off-duty NYPD officer was killed when a drunk driver rear-ended him. Kevin Jessup, 25, had been driving east on the Southern State Parkway when Jonathan Lopez struck his car around 5:35 a.m. yesterday morning. Jessup was pronounced dead at Nassau University Medical Center, while his passenger, Crystal Simons, was released after being treated for non-life-threatening injuries. more ›

Jets star wide receiver Braylon Edwards pled guilty to driving drunk in a plea deal today, successfully avoiding jail time. Edwards admitted to driving while intoxicated last fall, hours after the Jets had defeated the New England Ugg Boots Spokesmen—he must pay a $500 fine, and continue to participate in an NFL substance-abuse program, which he had already enrolled in. "Now it's just really time to focus on football again. I feel like it came to a fair conclusion," he excitedly told reporters after leaving court today. more ›

Bronx ADA Jennifer Troiano, who is facing DWI charges after an accident on the Major Deegan Expressway last summer, was allegedly "treated like a queen" and given preferential treatment after her arrest. According to the Daily News' sources, Troiano stayed on a couch in a "police lounge" equipped with a television, and "bragged to cops about how much she drank" at a colleague's party that night. "That guy came out of nowhere!" Troiano allegedly yelled, referring to one of the other drivers who was involved in the accident. more ›

An early-morning accident in Newark left a pedestrian dead after being pinned beneath a car, severing both of his legs, and two women have been arrested in conjunction with the crash, which authorities say may have been alcohol-related. more ›

Trying to tell the difference between the Lincoln Tunnel and a Port Authority bus ramp—not to mention following police directions— is hard, especially when you may be inebriated. The Post reports that the police arrested a man with a blood alcohol content "nearly three times the legal limit... was so sloshed early yesterday" that he "ignored a PA cop who ordered him to stop just after midnight, and revved his Toyota up a winding bus-entrance ramp to an upper level." more ›

Although we never enjoy getting a parking ticket, it can sometimes feel like a relief—after all, if we leave the ticket on the windshield, we don't have to pay the meter, and we can probably get away with free parking for the rest of the day. Well, one Dutchess County man must have been thinking along those lines yesterday when he was caught twice in the same night by the same troopers drunk driving. Because if you get caught drunk driving once, you have immunity for the rest of the day, right? more ›

The Daily News has the depressing grief-stricken words of an 11-year-old whose mother was killed in a Brooklyn drunk driving crash on the Belt Parkway early Saturday morning. And his father was the one driving the car. Tarell DuPass reportedly told his grandmother, "Who's going to take care of me?" and saying "he doesn't have anyone anymore." more ›

A 30-year-old woman was killed yesterday morning when a SUV driven by her boyfriend hit a guardrail and flipped on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. According to police, Kareem Dupass, 34, was speeding when he lost control of the Ford Explorer near the Flatbush exit around 5 a.m. Amanda Marty died at Brookdale Hospital, and Dupass was charged with manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, DWI, reckless driving and speeding. more ›

Two off-duty cops have been charged with drunk driving after two separate wrecks just 26 hours apart. On Wednesday night around 6:30 p.m., Officer Christine Mazarakes crashed her car on the Upper West Side on the corner of W. 81st Street and West End Avenue. Fortunately, no one was hurt in the accident. The Daily News reports that officers responding to the scene observed that Mazarakes was intoxicated, and she's been charged with DWI, but details are sketchy—the News doesn't say if she agreed to a breath test, which other allegedly drunk cops have successfully avoided in the past. A day later in Brooklyn, another cop followed in Mazarakes's sodden skid marks. more ›

Last year the NYPD reported that even though the Lower East Side had some of the lowest DWI arrest numbers in the city, it saw the highest increases in arrests. And it looks like that trend is continuing. Police have made 65 DWI arrests in the area this year, up from 23 over the same period in 2010. Which raises the same question we asked last year: who the hell is bringing a car to the LES? more ›

A pedestrian in the Bronx and bicyclist in Queens were victims of separate hit-and-run crashes over the weekend. In the Bronx, police quickly rounded up a suspect: Seth Johnson, 35, who was allegedly intoxicated at around 4:30 a.m. Sunday and fatally struck Thomas Riley, 23, who was trying to flag a cab on East Fordham Road near Bathgate Avenue. Police sources tell the Post that Johnson stopped and got out of his minivan after the accident, but when a witness tried to grab him, he drove off. more ›

Earlier today, a tour bus overturned on the southbound New England Thruway, killing 13 people. Yesterday afternoon, another bus avoided such a tragedy, when a bus driver of a NY-Baltimore BoltBus was arrested for allegedly driving drunk. more ›

Last August the state passed a law requiring even first time DWI offenders to outfit their cars with breathalyzer-triggered ignition locks for a minimum of six months. So congratulations to Oscar Cabeza, who yesterday became the first person in the city [pdf] indicted for not installing the device! What does he win? Oh, up to four years in prison. more ›

An unidentified man driving a blue sedan sideswiped one car and smashed head-on into an SUV in front of the Manhattan Criminal Court building just before noon yesterday, the Daily News reports. He then stumbled out of the vehicle and collapsed on the pavement as firefighters put out his car's small engine fire. It was then that they noticed the bottle of vodka that had been riding shotgun. According to the News, Department of Sanitation cops cuffed him until the NYPD got there. (Sanitation cops carry handcuffs?!) Fortunately, no one was injured in the crash, and charges against the driver are pending. To be sure, crashing in front of the courthouse was a nice gesture, but next time he wants to help streamline government services, he should drive drunk over to Rikers. more ›

An 18-year-old honors student who graduated from a Queens magnet school was killed by an allegedly drunk driver on the Sunrise Highway near Amityville on Wednesday night, and the teen's devastated mother wants blood. At the arraignment of Kenneth Serwan, a 46-year-old computer database manager, the mother of Tynielle Silvera broke down in grief-filled rage. "Murderer! Murderer!" Yolanda Silvera screamed at the defendant. "You killed my child! Rot in hell!" Silvera repeated the cries before being led out by loved ones and court officers. more ›

Road rage never pays off: An off-duty firefighter got into a shouting match with a cab driver while on an Upper West Side street...and he also managed to get arrested for drunk driving. According to the Daily News, "Sean Farrell, 36, was driving a 2005 Ford Explorer north on Amsterdam Ave. at 3:15 a.m. when a yellow cab pulled in front of him near W. 79th St... When the vehicles stopped at a red light, Farrell began screaming at the cabbie - which caught the attention of a passing cop, police said." The police then determined he was drunk and charged him with DWI; the FDNY has suspended him for 30 days without pay from his position at Engine Co. 250 in Parkville, Brooklyn. more ›