Spota: Increase sentences for hit-run drivers
Photo credit: James Carbone | A file photo of Suffolk County distict attorney Thomas Spota, outside the Suffolk County Legislature Building in Hauppauge.
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Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota again called Wednesday for the State Legislature to toughen the penalties for drivers in collisions who leave the scene.
Spota spoke on a day when three people were arraigned on indictments charging them with hit-and-run crimes, two of them resulting in fatalities. He first called for tougher penalties earlier this month at a sentencing in another...
