West Babylon Man Charged With Wrong Way DWI

By Timothy Bolger Posted on November 24, 2013

A West Babylon man has been arrested for allegedly driving drunk the wrong way for more than a mile on Sunrise Highway early Sunday morning, Suffolk County police said.

A Highway Patrol officer spotted a gray Pontiac G6 heading eastbound on the westbound lanes near Connetquot Avenue in Islip Terrace and stopped its driver, Charles Falco, near Oakdale-Bohemia Road in Oakdale at 12:15 a.m., police said.

The 50-year-old was charged with driving while intoxicated, reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a controlled substance, driving the wrong way and failure to comply.

Falco will be arraigned Sunday at First District Court in Central Islip.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.