Eastport, NY - June 25, 2018 - Suffolk County Police arrested a woman after her 15-year-old daughter was pulled over for speeding in Eastport on Sunday, June 24, 2018.
A Highway Patrol Bureau officer observed a 1997 Mercury Sable traveling at a high rate of speed on westbound Sunrise Highway near exit 62 in Eastport at 9:30 a.m. and pulled over the vehicle. The driver was a 15-year-old female.
The officer determined that the teen’s mother, Yolanda Martinez-Reymundo, allowed the teen to drive the Mercury alone.
Martinez-Reymundo, 41, Mastic Beach, was charged with Endangering the Welfare of a Child. She will be held overnight at the Seventh Precinct and is scheduled for arraignment at First District Court in Central Islip on June 25.
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