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Therapist Arrested on Felony D.W.I. Charge

Thu, 09/26/2019 - 13:58

A Manhattan psychologist was released Monday morning on $10,000 bail after being held for a day and a night in the Sag Harbor Village lockup on a felony charge of aggravated driving while intoxicated under Leandra’s Law.

Village police said someone called 911 to report that a possibly drunken woman had left a Range Rover and gone into Sag Town Coffee on Main Street, then driven off with a child in the car. At about 10 a.m., village police found a vehicle matching the description they were given blocking traffic on Main Street. When police approached, the driver, Jayme R. Albin, a 47-year-old cognitive and behavioral therapist, parked the 2019 vehicle in front of Emporium True Value Hardware. An officer saw a child, about a year and a half old, in a car seat in the back.

The driver was indeed intoxicated, police said in a report. She smelled of an alcoholic beverage, her eyes were watery and bloodshot, and she was “extremely” unsteady on her feet. She performed poorly on several field sobriety tests before being placed under arrest. In addition to the D.W.I. charge, which is an automatic felony under Leandra’s Law when a child 15 or younger is in the car, she was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.

A family member picked up the child shortly after the stop, said Sag Harbor Police Chief Austin McGuire. The Range Rover was impounded.

Though Ms. Albin refused a chemical blood test to determine the amount of alcohol in her system, Suffolk County Supreme Court Judge John Collins granted a blood warrant. The County Medical Examiner’s office sent a nurse to draw blood, which was sent to the county lab for analysis. The results were not immediately available.

Ms. Albin was held until Monday morning, when she was arraigned in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court before Justice Lisa R. Rana. Her attorney, Edward Burke Jr., declined to comment


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