Cops: Men raced on Smithtown's Main Street

Two Suffolk men were arrested early Wednesday and charged with racing their cars on Main Street in Smithtown -- a few hundred feet from where an 11-year-old girl was struck by a car and killed in 2009.

Antonio Numa, 18, of Centereach, who was driving a Mercedes-Benz E 500, and Joshua McKasty, 21, of Selden, who was driving a Honda Civic, were racing at 1:15 a.m. near Landing Avenue, Suffolk County police said.

An officer on traffic detail spotted the two racing west on Main Street and stopped them, police said. It was not clear how fast the two cars were traveling.

Police said Numa and McKasty were charged with participating in an unlawful speed contest. Both were arraigned Wednesday in First District Court and held on $2,500 bail, officials said.

The two were arrested less than a block from where Courtney Renee Sipes, 11, of Smithtown was killed by a hit-and-run driver Nov. 24, 2009. The driver, Maureen Lambert, 24, of Stony Brook, was high on heroin at the time of the crash, police said.

She pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, second-degree vehicular manslaughter and other charges and was sent to prison for 4 to 12 years.