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Man sentenced in Huntington drunken-driving house crash

Originally published: January 15, 2013 6:30 PM
Updated: January 15, 2013 8:55 PM
By ANDREW SMITH  andrew.smith@newsday.com

Daniel Sajewski, 23, of Brooklyn, appeared in Suffolk

Photo credit: Handout, Steve Silverman | Daniel Sajewski, 23, of Brooklyn, appeared in Suffolk County Court and pleaded not guilty to an 11-count indictment charging him with driving drunk straight through the Huntington home of two elderly women -- only to claim his then-girlfriend was behind the wheel.

The Brooklyn man who admitted driving drunk through a Huntington house on Memorial Day and convincing his then-girlfriend to take the blame for him was sent to prison Tuesday.

Although Daniel Sajewski, 23, said nothing as Suffolk County Court Judge Martin Efman sentenced him to 1 1/2 to 3 years in prison, his attorney said afterward that Sophia Anderson actually was the driver.

"He wanted...

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