Crime & Safety
Sheriff: Man Arrested for DWI with 4-Year-Old Daughter, Wife in Car
Salvatore Silinonte, of Brentwood, will face felony DWI charges under New York State's Leandra's Law.
A Brentwood man has been arrested for allegedly driving while intoxicated with his 4-year-old daughter and wife in the car.
Suffolk County Sheriff's Department arrested Salvatore Silinonte, 30, on one felony charge of driving while intoxicated with his four-year-old daughter in the vehicle and multiple traffic violations on Monday afternoon.
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Silinonte was driving a 2007 Honda Pilot eastbound on the Long Island Expressway's South Service Road near the off-ramp for Exit 58 in Islandia. Officers observed him speeding at 60 mph in a 40-mph zone and failing to maintain his lane of travel by crossing over the white shoulder line, according to reports. He was pulled over for a traffic stop with both his wife and four-year-old daughter in the car.
Cops determined Silinonte was intoxicated and he was placed under arrest. He will be arraigned in Central Islip courts on Tuesday.
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Child Protection Services were notified and the child was released to her mother, according to the Sheriff's Department.
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