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SCPD: Drugged Woman Arrested for Leandra’s Law After Child Found Walking in Roadway

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By Published: March 14 2023

LongIsland.com

Anna Heinecker, 32, was charged with Aggravated DWI with a Child Passenger 15 years Old or Younger, Operating a Vehicle While Impaired by Drugs and Acting in a Manner to Injure a Child.

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Suffolk County Police have arrested a Mastic Beach woman for driving under the influence of drugs after her child was found walking on a Patchogue roadway.
 
Anna Heinecker was driving a 2015 Scion on eastbound Sunrise Highway Service Road with her 2-year-old daughter in the vehicle when she began to feel sick. She pulled over on Meadow Wood Drive near Rolling Hill Drive and unbuckled her child from her car seat. Heinecker subsequently lost consciousness and her daughter exited the vehicle and a passing motorist found the child walking on eastbound Sunrise Highway Service Road.
 
Responding officers located Heinecker in her vehicle and revived her with Narcan. Heinecker was transported to Long Island Community Hospital in Patchogue where she was treated and released into police custody. 
 
She was charged with Aggravated Driving While Intoxicated with a Child Passenger 15 years Old or Younger (Leandra’s Law), Operating a Motor Vehicle While Impaired by Drugs and Acting in a Manner to Injure a Child.
 
The child was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital for evaluation and Child Protective Services was notified.
 
Heinecker, 32, of 8 Spar Drive, was arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip. 
 
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