UpdatedFri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:54 am ET
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Melissa McMullen, 39, of Islandia, faces a DWI charge after police said she drove her car into a pond in Ronkonkoma on Thursday. (Shutterstock)
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.