Long Island Crime Briefs

ROOSEVELT

Driver ejected in crash, dies

A Roosevelt motorist who was not wearing her seat belt was killed yesterday morning when she was ejected during a single-car crash on the Meadowbrook State Parkway in East Garden City, State Police said.

Danielle Tippin, 24, was pronounced dead at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, police said.

Her front-seat passenger, Yesser Vanegas, 22, was taken to the hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, police said. Vanegas, of Copiague, was wearing his seat belt, police said.

Police said the crash occurred at 9:44 a.m. on the northbound parkway near Exit M3, the Merchants Concourse.

MASSAPEQUA PARK

Feds: Carrier trashed mail

A postal carrier from Massapequa Park trashed more than 1,000 pieces of mail instead of delivering them, federal prosecutors said.

Patrick Paskett, 24, was arraigned Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn and released on his own recognizance, a court spokesman said yesterday.

He is charged with felony destruction of mail and faces 5 years in prison if convicted.

Between Dec. 1 and March 6, Paskett, a regular carrier assigned to the Seaford Post Office since last June, deposited pieces of mail into waste containers in Seaford and Massapequa Park, the court complaint claims.

Paskett told a special agent for the Postal Inspection Service he put mail into trash containers about 15 times since December; he also said he knew it was wrong to throw away the mail, the complaint said.

A phone call to Paskett's home was not returned.