SCPD: Rocky Point Woman Arrested for Driving with 18 License Suspensions
Syosset, NY - Suffolk County Police has arrested a woman for driving with 18 license suspensions.
Wanda Carter was driving a rented 2017 Nissan Sentra, northbound on Route 110, after exiting the Americana Motel when she failed to signal and made an unsafe turn into oncoming traffic causing other vehicles to swerve out of the way at approximately 10:15 p.m. She also stopped at a green light causing a traffic hazard. First Precinct Patrol officers initiated a traffic stop. An investigation revealed that Carter’s driver’s license had been suspended 18 times.
Carter, 48 of Rocky Point, was arrested and charged with Aggravated Unlicensed Operation of a Motor Vehicle 1st Degree, a Class E Felony, and Operating a Motor Vehicle Without an Interlock Device. The vehicle was impounded.
Carter was held overnight at the First Precinct and was arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip.
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