Driver with rap sheet busted for DWAI after Patchogue crash injures two women

A Port Jefferson Station man faces impaired driving and drug possession charges after his Dodge Challenger struck a Jeep weekend on Sunrise Highway in Patchogue this weekend, injuring two young women, police said.

Mark Miller, 26, was driving alone east on Sunrise Highway at 8:17 p.m. Saturday when he struck a 2000 Jeep while trying to pass the vehicle using an entrance ramp just west of North Ocean Avenue, police said. The 19-year-old Sayville woman driving the Jeep and a 19-year-old female passenger in the Jeep suffered minor injuries.

A 19-year-old man in the Jeep was not injured. Miller also was not injured.

Miller was charged with driving while ability impaired by a combination of drugs and alcohol and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Police said the controlled substance was alprazolam, the generic form of Xanax.

Saturday’s arrest was the latest in a string of run-ins with law enforcement for Miller stretching back six years.

On June 8, Miller was arrested and charged with second-degree menacing with a blunt object and criminal mischief. He was arraigned and entered a not guilty plea, records show.

On May 24, Miller was charged with resisting arrest and a bevy of other charges relating to an ATV stop. Those charges include third-degree fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle, along with reckless driving, speeding, multiple failures to stop at stop signs, operating an ATV on a highway, and a string of equipment and registration violations. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.

A message left with attorney Matthew Tuohy, who is representing Miller Suffolk court in the recent criminal cases, was not immediately returned.

In December 2021, Miller was arrested in Port Jefferson Station and charged with first-degree robbery after allegedly displaying a gun during the incident, police said.

A year earlier, in October 2020, Miller was arrested and charged with first-degree assault after police said he shot a 19-year-old man in Coram. The victim hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries.

How the 2020 and 2021 cases were resolved could not immediately be determined.

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