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Port Richmond man charged with DWI after Goethals crash

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

By JOHN ANNESE

ADVANCE STAFF WRITER

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- He was 18 years old and drunk, cops say, and he had just crashed his car on the Goethals Bridge.

So Michael Crispino hatched a plan -- he got out of the car, and started walking away, according to cops.

It wasn't a very good plan.

The Port Richmond man was spied almost immediately as he strode from the car, a 1995 Mazda, early Sunday morning.

Port Authority police swooped in and found the 18-year-old wobbling on his feet, with the smell of booze on his breath, court papers allege.

And his blood alcohol level measured at .102 percent -- over the .08 percent legal limit.

Cops charged Crispino, of Rainbow Avenue, with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident.

Staten Island cop gets 90 days for DWI wreck

by Staten Island Advance

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Thursday June 19, 2008, 5:51 PM

Staten Island AdvanceThe car Gary Chin was driving at the time of his 2007 DWI-related accident is examined by firefighters. Chin was sentenced to 90 days in prison today.

An ex-cop from Staten Island was jailed today for driving drunk when he slammed his car into a boulder, leaving a woman passenger with extensive brain injuries.

Gary Chin, 27, of Great Kills, a former police officer at St. George's 120th Precinct, was shipped off to the other side of prison bars for 90 days stemming from a crash in May last year that left two passengers injured.

Karen McGee, 34, was hospitalized in critical condition with severe head trauma and spent six weeks in a coma.

Assistant District Attorney Mark Palladino said in the year since the crash, Ms. McGee is "improving," but she sustained "significant memory loss" and "still has a long way to go."

"Since that night, I've had psychological and physical effects," a remorseful Chin told Justice Leonard P. Rienzi as a crowd of cops from the 120th Precinct and family members filled the courtroom at state Supreme Court, St. George.

Chin, who resigned from the NYPD in the wake of a four-count indictment charging assault, vehicular assault and two counts of driving while intoxicated, pleaded guilty May 13 to a single count of second-degree vehicular assault in exchange for a cap of one year in jail.

He faced up to four years in prison had he been convicted of second-degree vehicular assault, a Class E felony.

Rienzi gave Chin 90 days in jail, five years probation and took away his license for one year.

--Contributed by Jeff Harrell