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Drove 95 mph drunk, high on cocaine: DA Amandeep Singh seeking bail after charged in crash killing two teens BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z The driver charged with killing two Roslyn teenagers in a car crash last month was traveling 95 miles per hour on the wrong side of the road while drunk and with cocaine in his system, prosecutors said on Friday. Roslyn resident Amandeep Singh was charged with multiple offenses, including aggravated vehicular homicide, first-degree vehicular manslaughter, second-degree manslaughter, leaving the scene of an auto accident with a fatality, Driving While Intoxicated and two counts of second-degree assault. The two killed were Roslyn Middle Schoolers Drew Hassenbein and Ethan Falkowitz, both 14. Singh appeared at a Brooklyn appeals court on Friday where his attorney, James Kousouros, advocated for his client to be released on a bond. “He has longstanding community ties, he is 35 years of age, he has no criminal record, he has a degree in civil engineering from New York University and owns a successful business in which he employs up to 85 people,” Kousouros said in a statement to Blank Slate Media. “He is married with two children and owns a home in which his family lives. While we certainly acknowledge the seriousness of the offenses, under the federal and state
constitutions as well as New York State statutory law, he should be released on bail.” Roslyn High School students Zach Sheena and Ethan Solop, present in the car with the two middle schoolers, were also hospitalized with internal injuries but were in stable condition following the accident. Police reported that the four boys were in a 2019 Alpha Romero sedan driving on North Broadway when at 10:21 p.m. on May 3 they were struck by Singh’s 2019 Dodge Ram driving in the opposite direction of traffic. As a result of the collision, the Alpha Romero then hit a 2023 Volvo occupied by a driver, 49, and a passenger, 16. Both were treated at the scene for minor injuries, according to police. Nassau County Assistant District Attorney Michel Bushwack, chief of the Nassau District Attorney’s Vehicular Crimes Bureau, said a black box inside of Singh’s truck registered the vehicle traveling at 95 miles per hour five seconds before the crash. Bushwack also told the Appellate Division’s Second Judicial Department Singh attempted to flee the scene of the crash, had a 0.15 blood alcohol limit four hours after the crash and cocaine in his system. Immediate efforts to reach prosecuContinued on Page 41
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Students sporting red noses for East Hills Elementary School’s Red Nose Day celebration. See story on page 11.
JCC to open preventative mental health center BY C A M E RY N O A K ES
amid a mental health pandemic, Deputy Executive Director Dina The Sid Jacobson Jewish Com- Shuster said. Shuster said the center will munity Center is developing a new preventative mental health center to be a safe space for the community address the needs of their members to engage with in order to reflect,
meditate and attend workshops and events catered towards preventative mental health. Workshops ideas could include skill-building on mindfulness and Continued on Page 41
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