Cops: DWI charge for man with kids in car

A Huntington Station man was charged with drunken driving and other offenses Tuesday after he was stopped for driving a car erratically with two children as passengers, police said.

Aaron Tarkin, 25, of 31 Lewis Ct., was stopped by police near New York Avenue and Tuthill Street in Huntington Station about 1 p.m., Suffolk police said. In the 2003 Hyundai with Tarkin were a friend's two sons, aged 5 and 8, who he was taking to lunch, police said.

Second Squad detectives charged Tarkin with aggravated driving while intoxicated with a child, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, operating a motor vehicle without an interlock device, criminal possession of a control substance, and criminal possession of a hypodermic needle.

He was to be arraigned Wednesday in First District Court, Central Islip.