Man Let Daughter, 13, Drive With Child In Car: Police

A Huntington Station man was arrested on Saturday after police say he let his 13-year-old daughter drive with a 3-year-old child in the car.

According to authorities, police pulled over a 1995 Toyota Camry that was driving erratically northbound on Oakwood Road in Huntington Station at 6:30 p.m. to find that a 13-year-old girl was driving the vehicle while her father, 45-year-old Alejandro Noriega, was in the passenger seat.

Police say a child, who a friend trusted Noriega to babysit, was seated in a child safety seat in the back seat of the vehicle.

Noriega was arrested and charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and was issued a summons for permitting unlicensed operation. The teen was released to her mother at the scene and the child was released to his mother at the Second Precinct.

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

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