Cops: Troopers respond to find DWI driver

Troopers dispatched to the Southern State Parkway Friday in Franklin Square to investigate a person needing help with an unknown medical condition found a Shirley woman driving drunk who also identified herself falsely, State Police said.

Karimah Simon, 26, was being interviewed by an ambulance driver at about 6:11 a.m. when troopers pulled up to the scene on the parkway near Exit 16, Franklin Avenue, according to a Monday news release.

Troopers detected a strong odor of alcohol coming from Simon and conducted sobriety tests, police said. She failed the test and was arrested and charged with DWI, police said.

Simon gave them a false name and provided a reading of .18 percent on a breath-analyzer test -- more than twice the legal limit, police said.

She is charged with felony DWI because of a previous drunken driving conviction in the last 10 years, police said, false personation and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

She is scheduled to appear Tuesday at First District Court in Hempstead.