Police Report: DWI Leads to Car Accident; Drug Possession

The following information was supplied by the Southold Police Department. A criminal charge is only an accusation, and does not indicate convictions.

Hilario Ramirez-Perez, 27, of Jamesport was charged with driving while intoxicated on Friday at 5:50 p.m. after he lost control of his 1998 Mitsubishi off of Depot Lane in Cutchogue and drove into several home lawns and crossed the lanes of Depot Lane twice, narrowly missing a head-on collision with a patrol car, police said. The car came to rest when it crashed through a masonry wall of the Sacred Heart Cemetery, police said. Members of the responded and transported Ramirez-Perez to for treatment to minor injuries before he was processed and held overnight at police headquarters.

Jessica Chmielewski, 24, of Aquebogue and Willie Bryant, 30, of Riverhead were charged with driving while under the influence of drugs and criminal possession of a controlled substance on Friday at 11:15 a.m. after police stopped Chmielewski for a traffic violation while she drove on Peconic Bay Boulevard in Mattituck, police said. She and her passenger, Bryant, were found to be in possession of and impaired by PCP, police said.