Woman Charged With DWI After Driving Car Into Ronkonkoma Pond: PD

RONKONKOMA, NY — A woman who drove her car into a pond in Ronkonkoma on Thursday night was charged with DWI, Suffolk police said.

Melissa McMullen, 39, of Islandia, drove a 2009 Mercury Mountaineer SUV into a pond at Colony Park Apartments, at 500 Peconic St., at around 7:50 p.m., police said.

The SUV was taking on water when Emergency Service officers Danny Colondona, Carmine Pellegrino, and Chris Oddo arrived, police said. The officers broke a window, attached a chain so the vehicle wouldn’t go further into the water and pulled the vehicle out of the pond with McMullen in it, police said. She was evaluated at Stony Brook University Hospital.

McMullen was charged with driving while intoxicated and will be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip at a later date.