Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about DWI

Repeat Drunk Driver Pleads to Low-Level Felony for Killing Queens Pedestrian

By Brad Aaron | Sep 25, 2015 | 5 Comments

A recidivist drunk driver who was charged with 10 felonies for killing a Queens pedestrian pled guilty to two low-level felony counts in a deal with District Attorney Richard Brown. At around 4:30 a.m. on July 5, 2014, Romulo Mejia drove a Ford compact into a man who was walking at Roosevelt Avenue and 92nd Street in Jackson Heights, according to the […]

DA Ken Thompson Won’t Say When DWI Killer Might Drive Again [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | May 14, 2014 | 3 Comments

The office of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson won’t talk about reported developments in the case of a defendant who avoided a homicide charge after killing a pedestrian while driving drunk. Eric Nesmith hit Roxana Gomez at Flatbush Avenue and St. Marks Avenue with a BMW sedan just after midnight on July 5, 2013, according to witness accounts and the Post. Gomez, 27, suffered […]

Wrist Slap for DWI Killer After Brooklyn DAs Decline to Charge Homicide

By Brad Aaron | Apr 9, 2014 | 6 Comments

A convicted drunk driver was sentenced this week to probation, a nominal fine, and a six-month license suspension for killing a Brooklyn pedestrian. Shortly after midnight on July 5, 2013, 27-year-old Roxana Gomez was walking at Flatbush Avenue and St. Marks Avenue when Eric Nesmith hit her with a BMW sedan, according to witness accounts and the Post. […]

Bronx DWI Pedestrian Killer Gets 90 Days and Six-Month License Suspension

By Brad Aaron | Apr 2, 2014 | 2 Comments

A judge sentenced a convicted drunk driver to just 90 days in jail and a six-month license suspension for killing a pedestrian in the Bronx. Thomas Riley, 23, was crossing East Fordham Road near Bathgate Avenue at around 4:20 a.m. on March 20, 2011, when 48-year-old Seth Johnson struck and killed him with a minivan, according […]

Bronx Motorist Convicted of DWI, But Not Manslaughter, in Pedestrian Death

By Brad Aaron | Dec 18, 2013 | 2 Comments

A jury in the Bronx determined a motorist was impaired by alcohol and drugs when he struck and killed a pedestrian in 2011, but the jury acquitted the driver of manslaughter. Thomas Riley, 23, was crossing East Fordham Road near Bathgate Avenue at around 4:20 a.m. on March 20, 2011, when he was hit by […]

When Killing With a Car Is Murder: Q&A With Nassau ADA Maureen McCormick

By Brad Aaron | Dec 6, 2013 | 9 Comments

Last month, the Court of Appeals — New York’s highest court — upheld the murder convictions of impaired drivers who killed people in three crashes in Nassau County and Staten Island. Martin Heidgen was driving in the wrong direction on the Meadowbrook Parkway when he slammed a pickup truck head-on into a limousine, killing driver […]

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