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Cop uses defibrillator to save North Babylon woman

A 77-year-old woman who wasn't breathing and whose heart had stopped was saved by a quick-thinking Suffolk County police officer armed with a defibrillator Sunday.

First Precinct officer Peter Cucchiara responded to a 911 on Whalen Street in North Babylon, at 5:19 p.m. to find the woman unresponsive, police said. He used an Automated External Defibrillator to shock the woman back to life -...

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