LI CRIME BRIEFS

CALVERTON / Woman driving with son, 12, charged with Leandra's Law

A Wading River woman was arrested and charged with felony driving while ability impaired by drugs under Leandra's Law after police said Tuesday that she drove drunk with her 12-year-old son in the vehicle in Calverton.

Mary C. McKenna, 51, of Route 25A, was charged with driving while ability impaired, driving while ability impaired under Leandra's Law and endangering the welfare of a child after she was arrested at 5:30 p.m. Monday on Route 25.

Police said an off-duty Riverhead police officer who was following the 1996 Chevrolet driven by McKenna called to report the vehicle was being driven erratically on Route 25 near Fresh Pond Avenue in Calverton.

A uniformed patrol officer then stopped the car and determined McKenna showed "signs of being under the influence of drugs," police said. She was arrested.

Riverhead Town police said McKenna's son was unharmed and released to the custody of his father.

Leandra's Law is named for Leandra Rosado, 11, who was killed in October 2009 when the van she was riding in overturned on the Henry Hudson Parkway in Manhattan.

The law, enacted later that year, makes it a felony, even on first offense, to drive while intoxicated or ability impaired by drugs with a child under age 16 in the car.

-- JOHN VALENTI

VALLEY STREAM / Cops: 2 pedestrians robbed of phones by armed men

Two men walking down a street in Valley Stream were robbed by two other men, police said Tuesday.

The robbers, armed with a handgun, stole cellphones from the victims, then got into a blue Nissan Sentra driven by a third man and fled.

The armed robbery took place on Idaho Place at 10:43 p.m. Monday, Nassau police said.

The two assailants, armed with a handgun, approached the victims and rifled their pockets at gunpoint, stealing their cellphones.

Police said the robbers then fled north on Ivanhoe Place before entering the Nissan and driving off south on Hook Creek Boulevard.

-- JOHN VALENTI

SMITHTOWN / Police looking for bank robber, release description

Suffolk police detectives are searching for a man who robbed a bank in Smithtown this week.

The man entered the Teachers Federal Credit Union on Main Street about 10:30 a.m. Monday, told a teller he had a weapon and demanded cash, police said.

He fled on foot with an undetermined amount of money, police said.

The robber was described as a slim, about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, wearing an olive-green short brim hat, a hooded black sweatshirt, jeans and dark brown boots.

-- WILLIAM MURPHY