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Lt. Donald Stewart was arrested for drunk driving after crashing into a parked car.
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An off-duty NYPD lieutenant was arrested for drunk driving
More On: for a second time after he crashed into a parked car in
dwi Brooklyn over the weekend.

Two off-duty cops among three Lt. Donald Stewart, 43, a 22-year veteran of the force, was
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weekend taken into custody at the 81st precinct Saturday at around
4:53 a.m. and charged with driving while impaired by alcohol,
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He has been suspended without pay.
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Stewart, a retired gunnery sergeant in the US Marine Corps
Reserves, was previously arrested in 2014 after an
investigation concluded he drove while “under the influence
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According to police records , the first incident occurred on April 18, 2014, and Stewart was stopped by
fellow officer James Nielson in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. 107,831

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The police probe found that Stewart refused to take a breathalyzer test and “consumed an intoxicant to
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Nielson testified that he didn’t think the then-sergeant was legally drunk.
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He did, however, admit that he had a tough time deciding if Stewart was actually sober or not, but
maintained that he did not show favoritism to his fellow officer.

“Ifhe wasn’t a cop, I would have said that he was not above the legal limit,” Nielson told prosecutors, Video
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Stewart was a gunnery sergeant in the US Marine Corps Reserves.

Stewart was ultimately acquitted of the 2014 DWI charge but was convicted of a traffic violation for leaving
the scene of an incident.

Following the 2014 incident, Stewart was suspended for 64 days and put on probation for a year.

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By 2018, Stewart rose in the ranks and currently serves as the 100th precinct’s special operations
lieutenant. Records show his salary was $212,000 last year.

A representative of Stewart could not be immediately reached for comment.

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Greenfield
1 hour ago
We are all human and we certainly all make mistakes. Being a police officer with the NYPD
hould mean that you need to operate on a higher lever especially when dealing with drinking
driving.
This is not a good look for the NYPD and certainly this officer. When it’s possible that you
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Bye Bye
51 minutes ago

With a dismissed charge on his record, still the nypd suspended him 64 days. Bad decisions,
aybe he shouldn't have been the best choice for promotion. I thank him for his service but
it's time to get help.

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jojerry
1 hour ago

If they promote him to a higher rank he will get a driver so can drink all he wants.

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