Cops: Mastic man drove recklessly with children in car
A Mastic man driving erratically and recklessly while his two young children were riding in the backseat was arrested Friday night, Suffolk County police said.
A Fifth Precinct officer spotted Erik Reyes, 36, of 37 Shore Dr., speeding more than 100 mph, and weaving, while driving a 2001 Hyundai on Sunrise Highway near Nichols Road in Holbrook at about 8:30 p.m., police said.
When Officer Matthew DeMatteo pulled the vehicle over, he saw two young children in the backseat, including one who was not in a car seat, police said.
Reyes was arrested and charged with second-degree aggravated unlicensed, reckless driving, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of failing to secure a child under 4 in a car seat.
The children were released into the custody of their mother. Reyes was scheduled Saturday to be arraigned in First District Court in Central Islip.
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