Crime & Safety

Police: Spring Valley Man Charged with DWI

Stopped for driving erratically on Middletown Road.

A Spring Valley man is accused of drunken driving after he was stopped for driving erratically on Middletown Road in Nanuet, according to Clarkstown police.

Kenneth Drake, 28, of Spring Valley was stopped by town officers at 4:15 a.m. Sunday. After failing a sobriety test, police said Drake was taken to Clarkstown police headquarters in New City, where he failed a chemical breath test for alcohol.

Drake was charged with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, and was released later in the morning pending a hearing in Town Court in New City on Wednesday.

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