{"id":119595,"date":"2026-02-02T05:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119595\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:20:09","slug":"off-duty-city-correction-officer-sideswiped-nypd-vehicle-taxi-while-drunk-d-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119595\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty city Correction Officer sideswiped NYPD vehicle, taxi while drunk: D.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An off-duty city correction officer drunkenly crashed into a marked NYPD vehicle and a taxi in East Harlem, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>LeShelle Hallett, 34, was driving a black 2020 Infiniti on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/E+120th+St+%26+3rd+Ave,+New+York,+NY+10035\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c2f6084d5ba509:0xadad7858f32abc22?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Third Ave. near 120th St.<\/a> when she tried to pass both vehicles, sideswiping them in the process, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>She kept going uptown on Third Ave. until police stopped her, the complaint alleges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t had enough to not know how to drive, unlike them,\u201d she said to the officer who arrested her, apparently referring to the other drivers, the complaint alleges.<\/p>\n<p>A test put her blood alcohol level at .207% \u2014 more than 2\u00bd times the legal threshold for driving while intoxicated, the complaint alleges.<\/p>\n<p>Hallett was arraigned Sunday in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges including leaving the scene of a crash and aggravated driving while intoxicated. She was released without bail.<\/p>\n<p>Her lawyer could not immediately be reached for comment Sunday, and the Correction Department did not immediately answer a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An off-duty city correction officer drunkenly crashed into a marked NYPD vehicle and a taxi in East Harlem,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-119595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}