{"id":324285,"date":"2026-08-18T19:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324285\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:56:06","slug":"brooklyn-man-arrested-on-the-thruway-with-a-bac-more-than-three-times-the-legal-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324285\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn man arrested on the Thruway with a BAC more than three times the legal limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 15, 2026, New York State Police assigned to SP Newburgh arrested Precious G. Adediran, 45, of Brooklyn, for Aggravated DWI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 11:15 p.m. on August 15, troopers observed a 2025 Kia Sportage traveling northbound on the New York State Thruway (I-87) in the town of Cornwall driving erratically and in violation of vehicle and traffic laws. A traffic stop was conducted, and upon interview of the operator, identified as Adediran, troopers observed signs of impairment. Standard field sobriety tests were administered, which Adediran failed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was placed into custody and transported to SP Newburgh for processing, where he registered a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.26%.<\/p>\n<p>Adediran was charged with the following:<\/p>\n<p>Aggravated driving while intoxicated, BAC 0.18% or more\u00a0Driving while intoxicated \u2013 1st offenseVehicle and traffic law violations<\/p>\n<p>Adediran was released to a sober third party and is due in Cornwall Town Court on September 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Police urge drivers to use the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stopdwi.org\/mobileapp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">STOP-DWI Have a Plan app<\/a> to help them get home safely. The free app allows users to contact a taxi service or ride share, program a designated-driver list, or report a suspected impaired driver. The app is available for Apple and Android smart phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On August 15, 2026, New York State Police assigned to SP Newburgh arrested Precious G. Adediran, 45, of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-324285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324285","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=324285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}