Middle Island woman drove drunk with children, Suffolk cops say
Pamela Murphy is pictured in an undated photo. Credit: SCPD
A Middle Island woman was charged with driving drunk with her two 7-year-old children in East Patchogue early Saturday, police said.
Pamela Murphy, 41, was driving a 2003 Hyundai Santa Fe in the parking lot of USA Gas when she was stopped and arrested at 12:23 a.m., police said.
She was pulled over after a 911 caller reported an intoxicated driver shortly before midnight, police said.
Murphy was charged under Leandra’s Law, which is named for 11-year-old Leandra Rosado, who was killed in 2009 when a car she was riding in, operated by a drunken driver, overturned in Manhattan.
The law makes it a felony, even on first offense, to drive drunk with a passenger under age 16 in the vehicle.
Murphy was also charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, police said. The children were released into the custody of their grandmother.
Murphy is scheduled for arraignment in Saturday in First District Court in Central Islip.
Craig Schneider is a Long Island native and Stony Brook University alumnus. He joined Newsday as a general assignment reporter in January 2018 after 20 years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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