Cops: Wrong-way DWI on Hempstead Tpke.

A 31-year-old Georgia man is at least the 12th driver in the past seven weeks to be arrested and charged with driving drunk and the wrong way on a major Long Island road.

The man, Jean P. Deshommes of Douglasville, Ga., was arrested early Friday in East Meadow after he was stopped for driving west on the eastbound lanes of Hempstead Turnpike, Nassau police said. He drove a 2003 Honda Accord about 100 yards before being stopped and arrested shortly before 5 a.m., authorities said. No accidents or injuries were reported.

At his arraignment Friday at First District Court in Hempstead, Deshommes pleaded not guilty to a driving while intoxicated misdemeanor and several vehicle and traffic law violations.

Prosecutor George Smit told Judge Andrea Phoenix that Deshommes had a 0.12 percent blood-alcohol content, and Smit said Deshommes told police he had drunk a Long Island iced tea.

According to court records, Deshommes told cops he was coming home from a bar.

A Legal Aid attorney told the court Deshommes was on Long Island visiting his child. A family member declined to comment in court.

The judge suspended Deshommes' driver's license and set bail at $500.

Deshommes is the latest accused drunken driver to go the wrong way on a major Long Island road.

The first of the recent wrong-way incidents occurred Nov. 15. Off-duty New York City police Officer Andre Menzies of North Babylon was killed after his car was hit head-on by an accused wrong-way drunken driver on the Northern State Parkway in Dix Hills, police said.