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Not-guilty plea after his latest arrest

Kyle Soukup, who was convicted in the 2002

Photo credit: SCDA | Kyle Soukup, who was convicted in the 2002 drag racing deaths in Muttontown of a soon-to-be-married couple, was arrested in Southampton Village on charges including driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest, officials said. (July 6, 2012)

A man convicted in a drag-racing crash that killed two people in 2002 led police on a wild foot-chase before his most recent drunken-driving arrest, jumping in a pool, climbing over a fence and struggling through a thicket of bamboo before three officers subdued him with stun guns, prosecutors said Friday.

Before the chase, Kyle Soukup, 27, of Manhattan, nearly drove into a Southampton Village...

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