A Queens woman was charged with felony drunken driving after police found her 6-year-old son in the vehicle, officials said. After a report of an accident, officers responded to find that a vehicle driven by Ladion L. Logan, 31, of Jamaica, Queens, had hit a parked car, Nassau County police said.
Logan was yelling and cursing at the officers and had to be subdued, police said. She was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated under Leandra's Law, resisting arrest, and endangering the welfare of a child, and was to be arraigned in First District Court in Hempstead. Her son was turned over to family members.
What Leandra's Law means here
Leandra's Law makes it a felony, even for a first-time offender, to drive while intoxicated with a child 15 years old or younger in the vehicle. That single fact, a child in the car, is what turns a case that might otherwise be a misdemeanor into a felony, and it also brings a mandatory ignition interlock on conviction and a report to the state child-welfare system. A resisting-arrest allegation and a child-endangerment count only add to the exposure.
These are among the most serious first-offense cases New York sees, which is exactly why the defense, the lawfulness of the stop, the reliability of the testing, and careful mitigation, matters so much. A Queens DWI lawyer and a Nassau County DWI lawyer in one, Jonathan handles cases across the Queens and Long Island line where arrests like this one happen.
This write-up is drawn from public news reports at the time and is preserved here for general information only. A charge is an accusation, not proof of guilt, and every person is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. Nothing here predicts the outcome of any other case, and nothing here is legal advice.