Off-duty Nassau police officer charged with DWI following crash on Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway

An off-duty Nassau County police officer was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated after a wrong-way crash on the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway, the department said.

Officer Dominick Milazzo, 31, of Huntington Station, was driving his personal 2024 Ford Bronco north in the southbound lanes of New York State Route 135 around 4:45 a.m. Friday when he struck a 2026 International Harvester garbage truck, according to a Nassau County Police Department news release. The crash occurred near Exit 4, the highway’s connection to the Southern State Parkway in Seaford.

Nassau police ambulances took three people onboard the garbage truck, ages 56, 31 and 19, to hospitals to receive treatment for minor injuries, police said. Milazzo was also transported to a hospital for injuries considered minor.

Police arrested and charged Milazzo with driving while intoxicated, according to the department’s release. The officer is expected to be arraigned "when medically practical," the release said.

Milazzo has been suspended from the Nassau County Police Department following his arrest, Det. Tracey Cabey, a department spokesperson, told Newsday in a Friday evening telephone interview. It was not immediately known whether the suspension was with or without pay. Cabey declined to comment further on the officer’s arrest.