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Nassau, Suffolk plan holiday DWI crackdown

Suffolk County Highway Patrol officer Keith Cashman gives

Photo credit: Newsday/John Paraskevas | Suffolk County Highway Patrol officer Keith Cashman gives a summons to a driver who drove on the wrong side of the road at the intersection of Route 347 and Route 111 in Hauppauge. (May 11, 2011)

Nassau and Suffolk officials have announced heightened DWI enforcement during this Memorial Day weekend.

To emphasize the stepped-up enforcement of anti-drunken-driving laws on Nassau roads, County Executive Edward Mangano drove to a DWI-awareness news conference Friday in a police car. Its rear half was painted taxicab yellow, and on the side was the slogan: "Choose your ride, don't drink...

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