Nassau police arrested more than two dozen people for drunken driving on New Years Eve, including a 30-year-old Wyandanch man who had a young girl in his sport utility vehicle. 
Third Precinct officers pulled over a Nissan Pathfinder at the corner of Commonwealth and Jericho Turnpike in Bellerose Village for a traffic violation and determined that the driver, Raul Rodriguez, was drunk at 5:45 a.m. on Friday, police said. His girlfriend and her 9-year-old daughter were also in the truck, police said.
Rodriguez was one of 29 people arrested for driving while intoxicated in the county from 11 p.m. on Dec. 31 through 9 a.m. on Jan.1, police said. He was also the first that Nassau police charged with felony drunken driving under the new Leandra’s Law, which increases the penalty for driving drunk with a kid in the car.
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New York State police made the first arrest under the new law in Nassau and Suffolk last week.
Suffolk police said they arrested 28 people for drunken driving between 4 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday.
Rodriguez will be arraigned at First District Court in Hempstead on Saturday.
