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Several drunken boating charges in Suffolk

Originally published: August 26, 2012 9:29 AM
Updated: August 26, 2012 11:43 PM
By JENNIFER BARRIOS  jennifer.barrios@newsday.com

Suffolk County's first-ever boating while intoxicated checkpoint ends

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...

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