NYPD Sergeant Indicted in Fatal Drunk Driving Crash

A New York Police Department sergeant was indicted Monday on charges including aggravated vehicular homicide after allegedly driving drunk the wrong way on a Westchester County parkway and causing a fatal head-on collision that killed a 61-year-old doorman.

Tiffany Howell, 47, of Warwick in Orange County, faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of the most serious count. The crash occurred on January 22 around 11:40 p.m. on the northbound lanes of the Taconic State Parkway in Mount Pleasant. Prosecutors from the state attorney general's office said Howell was driving her personal vehicle southbound at about 50 miles per hour when she slammed into the car operated by Manuel Boitel, who was heading home to Peekskill from his job at a luxury condominium on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Boitel suffered severe injuries and was pronounced dead shortly after midnight at Westchester Medical Center. Howell, who sustained non-life-threatening injuries including a broken arm, was treated at the same hospital. Authorities determined her blood alcohol content was 0.26, nearly three times the state's legal limit of 0.08. Video from the event she attended earlier that evening showed her...