Deputies of the Putnam County Sheriff's Office solved a nearly four-year missing tortoise mystery this week when they discovered the animal trying to cross a busy street just a few miles from its home
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The joint operation to crack down on impaired driving will involve New York State Police, the Putnam County Sheriff s Dept. and municipal law enforcement. Also joining this initiative will be the Town of Carmel Police and the Kent Police Department.
According to the Putnam County Sheriff s Department s Facebook page, high-visibility police enforcement can lessen drunk driving fatalities by as much as 20 percent. The statewide crackdown will include sobriety checkpoints, which are police stops where officers are set up on a roadway to stop vehicles checking for impaired drivers. The last thing you want over the holidays is for this to happen to you.