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Jose Suruy-Cubule, 35, of Flanders, was arrested by Suffolk County Police after entering a sobriety checkpoint set up on Old Riverhead Road in the Village of Westhampton Beach on November 22 and charged with aggravated DWI per se, a misdemeanor, after a chemical breath test revealed, police said, that he was driving with a .23 percent blood alcohol content. Police report that Suruy-Cubule had told them he had “just one beer” when they pulled him over, but “demonstrated clues while performing standardized field sobriety tests” that indicated he might have had more than just one.
Karen Taylor, 65, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is alleged by Westhampton Beach Village Police to have evaded a sobriety checkpoint on Old Riverhead Road on the evening of November 22, along with committing other reported violations of New York vehicle and traffic law. Taylor was pulled over and the Southampton Town Police Department was called in to assist with administering field sobriety tests. She was determined to be intoxicated and turned over to Town Police, who charged her with misdemeanor DWI.