Mt. Kisco Man Arrested for DWI After Driving Car Onto Sidewalk
Mount Kisco police arrested a 42-year-old village man late Monday night for drunk driving after his car jumped a curb and ran up onto the sidewalk on Kirby Plaza.
Amilcar Dejesus Perez-Gomez, a West Street resident, was charged at 11:33 p.m. with a felony count of driving while intoxicated, operating a vehicle with a revoked license and failing to have an interlocking breath device installed on the car. His blood-alcohol content was .29 percent, more than three times above .08, which is the level that is considered being intoxicated, police said.
Two village police officers were handling an unrelated traffic stop in front of 15 Kirby Plaza when they saw Perez-Gomez, driving a 1998 Subaru, hit the curb and drive onto the sidewalk by 7 Kirby Plaza. No one was injured as a result of the incident.
Police said that a check of state motor vehicle records revealed Perez-Gomez has never held a valid driver’s license and that he had his driving privileges revoked after a Nov. 1, 2012, DWI conviction in Mount Kisco. License privileges were suspended a second time on Jan. 29, 2013, for failing to pay a driver responsibility fee stemming from a 2011 DWI conviction.
Perez-Gomez was arraigned Tuesday afternoon in front of Village Justice John Donohue and released on $500 bail. The Westchester County district attorney’s office had requested bail be set at $25,000.
He is scheduled to return to village court on Thursday at 7 p.m.
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