Lyft Driver Arrested for Driving with 17 License Suspensions

Suffolk County Police today arrested a Lyft driver for driving with 17 license suspensions.

Leith Crossen was in a 2007 Volkswagen Jetta on Westbury Road near Cold Spring Harbor train station when a Second Precinct officer, responding to a 911 call of a possible intoxicated driver, discovered him stopped in his car at approximately Saturday, June 8, 2019 9:35 p.m. Crossen, who was not intoxicated,  had just dropped off a passenger and had run out of gas. A check of Crossen’s driver’s license revealed it had been suspended 17 times.

Crossen, 57, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey was charged with Aggravated Unlicensed Operation of a Motor Vehicle 1^st Degree, a felony.

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