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Drugs Led To Fatal Crash, Driver Says
A Brentwood man admitted in court Monday, December 5, to getting behind the wheel of a pickup truck while high on cocaine and other drugs, then plowing through a group of union carpenters protesting in Bay Shore, killing two men.
Anthony Person, 36, pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree manslaughter, assault, driving while impaired by drugs and driving without a license in a Riverhead courtroom.
David Kresofsky, 41, of Farmingdale, and Gerald Geist, 60, of Copiague, were killed in that accident.
In exchange for the plea, Suffolk County Court Judge C. Randall Hinrichs will sentence Person to 41/4 to 123/4 years in prison on February 15.
According to Mr. Person, on the morning of July 20, after a nightlong binge of cocaine, Valium and Xanax at a Bay Shore motel, Person got in a borrowed 2002 Chevrolet pickup truck and drove west on the north service road of Sunrise Highway.
Just west of Third Avenue, a group of Long Island Carpenters Local 7 members were protesting at a site of construction for a new P.C. Richard and Sons store.
Person said that he jumped the curb, drove onto the sidewalk and slammed into the protesters. He said he kept driving until hitting a nearby van.