BREWSTER- Another illegal immigrant has been arrested after being found driving drunk and without a license, police said today.
Jose Morales, 32, of Brewster was pulled over by police on 460 N. Main St. at 11:47 p.m. Saturday after he was seen driving with his headlights off.
Police discovered Morales was intoxicated with a blood alcohol content of 0.21 percent..”That is almost three times the limit,” Brewster Police Officer John Delgardo said. The threshold for driving while intoxicated is 0.08 percent.Incidents like these are not uncommon in Brewster. Some, however, have more tragic results.
Morales, originally from Guatemala , was arrested, taken to Putnam County Jail and issued four tickets for: driving while intoxicated and aggravated driving while intoxicated, misdemeanors; operating a vehicle without a license and driving without headlights, infractions.
He is being held on a $5,000 bond.
Morales is due in Brewster Village Court on Sept. 15.
Morales’ arrest was the fourth of an illegal immigrant on drunken driving charges in Brewster since a June 8 fatal accident involving a driver police described as a drunken illegal immigrant.
On June 8, Lori Donohue, 37, and her daughter Kayla, 8, were walking out of the child’s dance class in Brewster when they were struck and killed by a pickup truck driven by Zacaria Conses-Garcia, who police said was an intoxicated illegal immigrant.
Conses-Garcia was indicted in the crash on two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide. Police said the vehicle Conses-Garcia was driving was registered to a northern Westchester horse trainer.
The accident drew calls from the community for more crackdowns on illegal immigrants.
