Several drunken boating charges in Suffolk
Photo credit: Stringer News Service | Suffolk County's first-ever boating while intoxicated checkpoint ends with multiple arrests and 1 boat impounded. (August 26, 2012)
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The Suffolk County Police Department's first boating-while-intoxicated checkpoint yielded two arrests Saturday evening in Patchogue, and three other people were arrested on similar charges over the weekend in Babylon and Riverhead.
Police inspected 23 boats between 6:50 and 9 p.m. Saturday on the Patchogue River near the Sandspit Marina and charged a Patchogue man and a Holbrook woman with...
