(Long Island, NY) Suffolk County Police arrested a Sayville man for boating while intoxicated in the Great South Bay on Sunday, June 7.
Joseph Leon was operating a 1994 Silverton 38-foot cabin cruiser without the boat’s navigational lights on which is required when it’s dark in the Great South Bay, a half-mile northeast of Cherry Grove, at approximately 2:20 a.m. Marine Patrol Officers John Mullins III and John Sheehan were patrolling the waters in Marine X-Ray when they stopped Leon’s boat and it was determined Leon was intoxicated.
Suffolk County Police arrested Joseph Leon, 59, a Sayville man, for boating while intoxicated in the Great South Bay on Sunday, June 7. Photo Credit: SCPD.
Officer Mullins arrested and charged Leon, 59, of 80 Willow Street, with Boating While Intoxicated.
Officer Mullins previously arrested Leon in June of 2011 for Boating While Intoxicated following a boat crash.
Leon was held overnight at the Third Precinct for arraignment today at First District Court in Central Islip.
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