And Long Island police agencies say they are tailoring their patrols accordingly.
During a 12-hour stretch beginning Wednesday night, cops across Nassau County arrested 35 suspected drunken drivers -- more than four times the number arrested on an average night, authorities said yesterday.
The arrests were made between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. yesterday, according to police. On an average night, eight or nine drivers are arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, said Nassau police spokesman Det. Sgt. Anthony Repalone. Repalone credited the spike in overnight arrests to the county and village departments' increased efforts to combat drunken driving -- patrols that will continue through the weekend.
In Suffolk County, two bartenders were ticketed Wednesday night in a sting focused on Village of Port Jefferson bars suspected of serving alcohol to minors, authorities said.
Most of the bars visited wouldn't let an underage police volunteer into the bar, but at least two bartenders, one at Grumpy Jack's and another at Tumbleweed's, did -- and were ticketed for giving the minor alcohol, Suffolk police said.
Charged with a misdemeanor related to the provision of alcohol to minors are Grumpy Jack's bartender John Gunderson, 29, of Highview Lane, Ridge, and Tumbleweed's bartender Kenneth Sandt, 44, of Floyd Bennett Drive, Sound Beach, police said.
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