Police Charge 2 With Driving While Impaired

Harrison Police have charged two people with driving while impaired by either drugs or alcohol.

Ricardo Corral, 26, of New Rochelle, was charged with felony driving while intoxicated after he was pulled over on Mamaroneck Avenue on Nov. 19. Corral was speeding down the street at about 4:15 a.m., police say, when an officer spotted him and pulled him over. 

Inside the vehicle police say they found an open alcohol container and that Corral had alcohol on his breath. Police administered a field sobriety test, which they say he failed. At that time Corral was placed under arrest for driving while intoxicated.

At police headquarters Corral agreed to a blood-alcohol test, which according to police revealed a .20 blood-alcohol level—more than twice the legal limit to drive in New York.

Corral was charged and released on $300 cash bail and is due in Harrison Court on Dec. 6.

Police have also charged a 62-year-old Dobbs Ferry woman with driving while ability impaired after they believe she consumed a prescription sedative before taking to the road.

Police stopped Joanne Heiss while she was driving in the area of Underhill Avenue and Madison Street at about 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 18. The officer at the scene reported Heiss spoke in a slurred and lethargic way and struggled to find her license.

Heiss was asked to perform a field sobriety test, which officers say she failed. Police placed Heiss under arrest for driving while ability impaired when she told police she had taken the prescription drug before driving. Police later found a pill bottle containing the drugs in the vehicle. The bottle warned users not to operate a vehicle after consuming the pills, police said.

Police charged Heiss at police headquarters where she was later released.