A former New York City Police Department sergeant from Orange County pleaded guilty to driving in the wrong direction on the Taconic State Parkway while intoxicated and striking another vehicle, causing a driver’s death, state Attorney General Letitia James said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Tiffany Howell, of Warwick, who was off-duty at the time, pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and second-degree manslaughter before Judge Anne Bianchi in Westchester County Court, James said.<\/p>\n
Howell, 48, crashed head-on into a car driven north by Manuel Boitel at 11:37 p.m. on Jan. 22 while she was driving south at more than 50 mph with a blood alcohol content of more than 0.18, the AG said. Boitel was pronounced dead at a local hospital.<\/p>\n
Bianchi set a $100,000 cash bail. Howell is due back in court for sentencing on Oct. 28, when she faces four to 12 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former New York City Police Department sergeant from Orange County pleaded guilty to driving in the wrong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,303,199,9,24,49,12,63,308,380,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-325233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-crime","tag-hudson-valley","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff","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\/325233","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=325233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}