DPW Snowplow Operators Box in Hit-and-Run Suspect

A 67-year-old Port Chester man accused of leaving the scene of accident Tuesday evening was caught when Department of Public Works snowplow operators boxed him in a few blocks away, police said.

At about 6:09 p.m., a man driving a red Ford Ranger pickup struck a sedan at Pearl and William Streets, then left the scene, according to Port Chester Police Lt. James Ladeairous.

Police heard DPW workers on the radio saying they had the driver boxed in. Police withheld his name because the citations issued to him—leaving the scene of an accident and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle— do not rise to the level of a misdemeanor crime.

Police found the driver on South Regent Street where the DPW snowplow operators had boxed him in. There, police said, he denied knowledge of the accident and said he had no license.