LI CRIME BRIEFS

MEDFORD/DWI charges for man asleep at wheel, and another driver

A Shirley man found asleep at the wheel of his car early Monday in Medford is facing a drunken driving charge, State Police said.

A motorist saw Delvin Lyons, 35, asleep in the driver's seat, and flagged down a trooper, police said.

The trooper approached the car at 1:10 a.m. on the eastbound service road of the Long Island Expressway at the Route 112 intersection, and found it was in drive with the motor running, police said.

Lyons had a breath analyzer reading of 0.09 percent, police said. He was charged with driving while intoxicated.

In another case Sunday evening, a Kings Park woman was arrested on a drunken driving charge after a trooper stopped her about 8:30 p.m. for an unsafe lane change, also on the eastbound service road, this time near the William Floyd Parkway exit, police said.

Deborah Chestnut, 60, had a breath analyzer reading of 0.19 percent, more than twice the legal limit, police said.

Arraignment information for Lyons and Chestnut was not immediately available.

-- GARY DYMSKI

HOLTSVILLE/2 men injured as car crashes into tree on Blue Point Rd.

Two men were hurt, one seriously, in an early morning car accident in Holtsville Monday, police said.

Passenger Dennis Rugolo, 18, of Holtsville, was taken to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in East Patchogue with "serious head trauma," Suffolk County police said.

The driver, identified as Micka White, 18, also of Holtsville, suffered a broken clavicle and broken leg in the crash, police said. His condition was not immediately known.

Police said White was driving a 1995 Toyota southbound on Blue Point Road when it struck a curb, then a tree about 300 feet south of Buckley Road at 3:35 a.m. Volunteers from the Holtsville Fire Department and the department's rescue squad responded to the scene and took the two men to the hospital.

The vehicle was impounded for a safety check.

Police said the investigation is continuing.

-- JOHN VALENTI

OCEANSIDE/2 held in robbery after victim is forced into house

Two men were arrested early Monday, shortly after they forced another man into an Oceanside residence, displayed weapons and robbed him of a prescription medication, Nassau County police said.

The victim, 22, was standing on Davison Avenue outside a house that was not his own shortly after midnight, when two men dragged him inside, displayed a stun gun and an expandable baton, rifled his pockets and took the medication before fleeing in a white Mercedes-Benz, police said.

A short time later, officers arrested Ben Atias, 25, of West Cortland Avenue in Oceanside, and Kyle McLaughlin, 25, of Curley Street in Long Beach. Both are charged with first-degree robbery, criminal possession of a controlled substance and fourth-degree possession of a dangerous weapon.

They were scheduled to be arraigned Monday at First District Court in Hempstead.

-- PATRICIA KITCHEN