Drunken Deer Park Nail Salon Crash That Killed 4, Including Nypd Officer, Ends In Conviction
A jury has convicted a Long Island man of murder for a drunken driving crash that tore through a busy nail salon, killing four people and injuring nine others, prosecutors announced on Thursday, June 4.
Steven Schwally, 64, of Deer Park, was found guilty after a jury trial of four counts of Murder in the Second Degree and numerous related charges stemming from the June 28, 2024 crash at Hawaii Nail & Spa in Deer Park, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney.
"Customers and workers went into a nail salon on an ordinary Friday June afternoon and four of them never c…
Suffolk Street Racers Couldn’t Outrun Police, Arrested On Bridge In Shirley: Authorities
Two drivers were busted for street racing on a Long Island highway early Tuesday, May 26, police said.
Jake Roth, 29, and Halee Solomon, 22, were racing down William Floyd Parkway southbound through Shirley just before 1 a.m., the Suffolk County Police Department said.
Roth was behind the wheel of a 2023 Dodge Charger while Solomon was driving a 2019 Ford Mustang when an officer spotted the two men and attempted to conduct a traffic stop, police said.
However, the two speedsters fled the scene and continued across the Smith Point Bridge, authorities said. They were stopped on the bridge by…
Drunk Driver Going 90+ MPH Causes Fiery Ansonia Crash, Seriously Hurting Passenger: Police
A Connecticut woman is accused of speeding along city streets at highway speeds, nearly three times the legal limit, and causing multiple crashes before her Jeep slammed into a pole and burst into flames, police said.
Amari Langston, 22, of Stratford, was arrested on Friday, May 8, in connection with several Ansonia crashes on March 8.
Police said Langston was driving a gray Jeep around 4:30 p.m. when she hit another vehicle at the intersection of Bridge Street and West Main Street in Ansonia, according to police. Investigators said she then fled the scene and headed south on Per…
DWI Driver Busted Speeding On Route 46: Mount Olive PD
A 32-year-old Budd Lake man was arrested and charged with drunk driving on Route 46, authorities said.
At 11:58 p.m. on Friday, May 1, officers observed a gray Nissan speeding on Route 46, Mount Olive police said. Officers initiated a traffic stop and as they spoke to the driver, Tadeo Estigarribiaescob, they detected the odor of alcohol and believed him to be impaired, police said.
Following a field sobriety test, Estigarribiaescob was arrested and charged with DWI, careless driving and reckless driving, police said.
Jeep Driver Charged In I-287 Harding Crash That Killed Tow Truck Driver Helping Motorist
Charges have been filed 10 months after a crash that killed a two-truck driver on the side of Route 287.
Pierre Innocent, 54, of Orange, was behind the wheel of a 2019 Jeep Cherokee that struck Daniel "DJ" Ortiz, 24, of Hopatcong, while he was assisting a motorist on the southbound side of the highway in Harding in July 2025, Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll announced Wednesday, May 6.
Innocent was charged with reckless vehicular homicide. Under Eileen’s Law, enacted in 2018, failure to maintain a lane of travel may support an inference that a driver was operating reckle…
