Officer hit, dragged by motorist, setting off chase
Photo credit: Handout | Robert Stein has been charged with second-degree assault of a police officer, first-degree reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of an incident with injury, two counts of petty larceny and three counts of third-degree unlawfully fleeing a police officer.
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A motorist suddenly drove off during a police traffic stop Friday in Melville and hit an officer, dragging him 200 yards and setting off a pursuit that finished on a dead-end street 12 miles away, Suffolk police said.
Robert Stein, 54, was at the Park and Ride off Exit 49 of the westbound Long Island Expressway about 10 a.m. when two Second Precinct officers noticed his car, which had been...
