A man has been arrested for drunken driving and drug possession with two children in the car near his Huntington Station home on Tuesday afternoon, Suffolk County police said.
Officers stopped a Hyundai Sonata for driving erratically northbound on New York Avenue and found the driver, Aaron Tarkin, to be under the influence of alcohol shortly after 1 p.m., police said.
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The 25-year-old man was taking his friend’s two sons, ages 8 and 5, out for lunch when he was stopped, police said. Police then found drugs and drug paraphernalia in the vehicle, authorities said.
Tarkin was charged with driving while intoxicated with a child, a felony under Leandra’s Law, as well as unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, endangering the welfare of a child, operation of a motor vehicle without an interlock device, criminal possession of a controlled substance, and criminal possession of a hypodermic needle.
He will be arraigned Wednesday at First District Court in Central Islip.
