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I 8A Saturday ebruary 25 2006 The Journal News sc rom Page One Rory GlaesemanThe Journal News bV t'' 41 'I Vk 1 If" 1 fy? 7 1 jr 3k W' A iBsSSS rwffiWryjWlP wPrldy Sfj a 1 1 State police investigate the scene yesterday where an SUV was removed from the Grassy Sprain Reservoir off the Sprain Brook Parkway The crash killed a 34 year old Mount Vernon woman Her fiance managed to reach safety SUV plunges into water killing 1 SPRAIN from 1A dicated that drugs or alcohol did not play a role but added that fur ther tests were being conducted as is routine in fatal motor vehicle accidents He said Callahan was treated for hypothermia at the medical center and released last night Callahan described Curry as his fiancee in his initial interview with police The couple had lived at 4 Park Lane in Mount Vernon a four building apartment complex at East Lincoln and Columbus av enues for several years Curry originally was from Staten Island and had worked for Morgan Stanley in midtown Manhattan for seven years said Andrea Slat tery a spokeswoman for the company Callahan is a psychologist at Claremont Elementary School in Ossining State police said Curry was pro nounced dead on arrival at Westchester Medical Center shortly after she was plucked from the chilly waters at 7:35 am more than three hours after the vehicle plunged into the reservoir inves tigators said Kopy said Curry was not wear ing a seat belt when scuba divers from the New York Police Depart ment and Yonkers police retrieved her body but it is not known whether she was wearing a re straint when the accident oc curred The vehicle traveled about 30 yards before entering the water but no skid marks were found at the scene Kopy said Kopy said Callahan got out of the vehicle swam to shore and be gan walking The manager of the conven ience store at the BP Amoco sta tion Dan McCleary said Callahan arrived there at 5:15 am bleed ing from the forehead and soaking wet McCleary described Callahan as hysterical and crying and said he flopped on the floor about two minutes later The manager called 911 sum moning Yonkers police who had Callahan taken to the medical cen L3MET 1 'Sv WW' WRBrz 1 abr 1 BMk AMV dBk AjJ Stuart BayerThe Journal News State police Capt Michael Kopy left and investigators Joseph Becerra and Shannon Morrison answer questions yesterday at their headquarters in Hawthorne about the fatal SUV accident off the Sprain Brook Parkway in Yonkers 1 Grassy Map Sprain 1 I Aarea Reservoir I 1 Sr i I 5 jc i tn tn ro i mi 1 Yonkers xI'veX4 1 zy Yvonne LinThe Journal News About 4:30 am yesterday: James Callahan drives a ord Explorer northbound on the Sprain Brook Parkway with Rachele Curry Callahan said a car cut him off causing him to crash into the guardrail and into the Grassy Sprain Reservoir 0 About 5:15 am: Callahan arrives at a BP Amoco station after exiting the vehicle and climbing to shore Police say he walked about 100 yards north then turned around 0 About 7:35 am: New York Police Department divers recover Curry's body from the SUV ter while emergency personnel Reach Jorge itz Gibbon responded to the scene of the ve at jfitzgiblohudcom hide accident or 914 694 5016 Rory GlaesemanThe Journal News Emergency personnel respond to the scene of the accident i "'W' 1 LrPr MbNEkw rX4 j'WwWw I i At 'AD 1 ff I dj I i ah Wi 1 fr 2fS 's A Li2 vaaM Patching potholes As New York State Department of Transportation supervisor Stuart Ryan s' left flags traffic yester day worker George Kern tamps patch material into a pothole along Route 6 in Shrub Oak Joe Larese The Journal News Nanuet man indicted in kidnapping attempt Steve Lieberman The Journal News NEW CITY A Nanuet man accused of grabbing a teenage girl in Haverstraw was indicted yes terday on a charge of attempted kidnapping A Rockland grand jury charged Wilson Brandon Jean Baptiste with a felony count of second de gree attempted kidnapping and a misdemeanor count of endanger ing the welfare of a child The indictment resulted from police accusations that Jean Bap tiste 22 grabbed the 13 year old girl by the wrist eb 10 The girl had just left a school bus and was walking home when she was grabbed at 3:20 pm on Railroad Avenue and Andrews Drive Haverstraw police said The girl told her mother who called police Police arrested Jean Baptiste af ter he called the police station Haverstraw town Police Chief Charles Miller said Jean Baptiste heard that he was wanted lor questioning and police had dis tributed a sketch of him in the community Miller said Jean Baptiste called to deny he grabbed the girl and had just bumped into her As Jean Baptiste spoke with a dispatcher police traced the call and sent Clarkstown and Ramapo police to his house at 142 Pascack Road in Nanuet He was detained until Haver straw police arrived and arrested him Jean Baptiste has not entered a plea to the felony indictment His case has been transferred to County Court Reach Steve Lieberman afsliebermlohudcom or 845 578 2443 LoHudcom Animal cruelty suspect lost other pets to neglect PETS from 1A problems agreed to surrender the horse to a rescue foundation for Dunn said was also a dog being kept in squalid conditions in the house and he surrendered But Dunn said police aware that Russomano had the Chihuahua because he kept it at his business urther information on tlie business was unavailable Police had asked Russomano several times to come to the Sher iffs Office for questioning but he refused Dunn then got an arrest warrant for Russomano eb 18 arrest was the latest in a series of animal cru elty cases in Putnam Misde meanor charges are pending against a 20 year old Carmel woman who is accused of beating her horse and a 28 year old Kent man who was charged with shoot ing 'a cat Meanwhile Dunn said the Chi huahua which has been named Papa is in a foster home gained some weight and doing she said also discovered that he had a heart murmur that was untreated but now being Reach Terry Corcoran at tcorcoralohudcom or 845 228 2275 Police raid local bars hab underage drinkers IDs from 1A pus is being held on charges of second degree forgery and sec ond degree criminal possession of a forged instrument both felonies and is due again Wednesday in court Tire charges are punishable by up to seven years in state prison Police seized three computers from room including a laptop used to create high quali ty New Jersey licenses He sold them out of his room to underage students primarily so they could get into bars and buy alcoholic beverages authorities said His arrest was the result of a two month crackdown oh the manufacture and distribution of phony licenses Westch ester District Attorney Janet Di iore said The investigation was conducted by Briarcliff Manor Pleasantville and Mount Pleasant police the state Liquor Authority the Department of Motor Vehicles and the District Office Yesterday afternoon Briarcliff Manor police searched another room at Dow Hall but would not say what they found or whether the male student living there was arrested Later Thursday night police and Liquor Authority investiga tors fanned out to local bars in cluding Paulies on Marble Avenue in Pleasantville and Bar at the Town Center in Thorn wood At police charged two 19 year old West chester women with misde meanors one for using another license and the other for using a New York license with an altered birth date our other patrons were given sum monses charging them with un derage drinking a Liquor Author ity violation But Paulies Sports Bar had the biggest cache of underage drinkers about half of the patrons were younger than 21 police said One girl was just 15 a student at a local high school There were sev eral 16 and 17 year olds in the mix but the vast majority of the confiscated licenses belonged to Pace students police said Owner Paul Martinelli defended his establishment saying staff did everything they could to keep mi nors out running IDs through a scanner and using a black light to recognize hidden features in li censes A sticker on the front door states care so we carded Mar tinelli said yesterday someone comes in with an out of state li cense legitimate what are we supposed to do? doing everything we can but kids are smart when they want to Pleasantville police Detective Michael Demaio was among sev eral officers raiding Paulies time you get that many underage kids in a bar drinking a big Demaio said problem had as far as date rapes and assaults has all been underage Of the 70 licenses seized a were handiwork Diiore spokesman Lucian Chaifen said though there also were fakes from other states Pleasantville police charged two legal drinkers at Paulies with disorderly conduct and also were expected to charge a bartender with selling to minors Demaio said But only two minors age 19 were arrested on charges of crim inal impersonation a misde meanor The rest of the underage drinkers were let go without any summonses though Demaio said they could still be charged Their names also were being handed over to the Liquor Authority which will decide what if any ac tions to take against the bar which came under new ownership in2004 At Pace University spokes woman Cara Halstead Cea said the school is cooperating with law enforcement and also conducting an internal investigation of the matter students shown to be in volved in this can certainly expect to go through the disciplinary she said will re ex amine and intensify the ways we educate our students about the danger of using fake Student Meaghan Wagner who lives at Dow Hall and is news edi tor of her campus paper was only mildly surprised about the arrests and confiscated licenses saying not uncommon for underage students to come back intoxicated from a night out at local bars surprises me they got caught sort of but not surpris ing that it happened because col lege students like to do stupid Wagner said a problem with underage drinking everywhere and I think Pace is worse than anywhere Reach Shawn Cohen at spcohenthejournainewscom or 914 694 5046 Her shot is over but she be idle IDOL from 1A planned to fly home today was one of four contestants voted off during the show She had the fewest votes of the 12 female contestants Anoth er local favorite Brenna Gethers of Mount Vernon remains in the running sang the song Bruce Springsteen wrote for Pat ti Smith the and said she wished she had been able to hit the last note better but she was proud of her perform ances Tuesday and Thursday nights went down with a rock song and OK with she said love rock I regret picking that song for a single judge Paula Abdul gave some comforting ad vice and said she should nurture her music career Simon Cowell told she would make a great model instead said she would like to continue trying both acting and modeling in addition to singing still trying to find my she said put singing on a back burner Singing has always been my first She and her twin sister Jessie started singing around the house as kids and then joined a musical group in elementary school As basketball players al Niagara Uni i versify they sometimes sang rousing renditions of the nation anthem before games Jessie auditioned in Boston last summer for with Becky but she was derailed by throat surgery Becky said she did not believe that some sexy photos for which she posed with Jessie for Maxim magazine hurt her rep utation with voters never really know why people like she said really will never know why I was eliminated Only America knows I always believe in myself" had nothing but kind words for Gethers whom she roomed with during the com petition got along she said never even had a disagree ment in the room ever The way she is on camera is the way she The biggest surprise about be ing on she said was how much she grew as a person never actually think going to change and be come a better performer and artist for she said course disappointing (to be voted off) but that was yesterday and mov ing Reach Rebecca Baker Erwin at rerwinlohudcom or 914 694 5064.