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Three Off-Duty Cops Arrested For Drunk Driving In 27 Hour Span
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Apr 19, 2014
Modified Apr 20, 2014
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Bolstering the notion that the enforcers of law are not always necessarily the ones who abide by it, three off-duty NYPD officers were arrested in separate incidents on Thursday and Friday and charged with driving while intoxicated.
Authorities say that at 2:33 a.m. on Thursday, 30-year-old Jeffrey Balzotti, an NYPD sergeant, was arrested while allegedly driving drunk within the confines of the 10th precinct. He was charged with a DWI and driving recklessly.
On Friday morning, at around 4:30 a.m., the NYPD says Jose Vanderpool, a 30-year-old police officer, was pulled over in Queens and charged with a DWI. The Post reports he was involved in a collision on 32nd Avenue in Jackson Heights, and refused a breathalyzer.
And less than an hour later at 5:05 a.m., authorities say NYPD sergeant Donald Stewart, 34, was arrested near Fulton and Boyland Streets in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He was also charged with a DWI.
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