Amityville man charged after car crashes into Deer Park home
The scene early Sunday in Deer Park after a Mercedes-Benz sedan crashed into a home on Nicolls Road. Credit: Paul Mazza
After a car crashed into a Deer Park home in the early hours of Sunday morning — pummeling through an exterior wall into a living room and coming to rest atop a leather couch — the Suffolk County Police Department arrested and charged an Amityville man for allegedly driving the vehicle while impaired and illegally possessing a handgun.
No one in the home was injured in the crash about 4:45 a.m., police said in a news release.
The driver, Matthew Troche, 19, was southbound on Cayuga Avenue in a Mercedes-Benz sedan when he ran a stop sign in front of the home at the road's T-intersection with Nicolls Road, the release said.
The Deer Park Fire Department and Suffolk County police responded to the crash and discovered the Mercedes entirely within the living room, having apparently traversed the lawn and the front steps before crashing through the front door and a wall. The police said Troche was sent to Good Samaritan University Hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. He was arrested and charged after his release.
Police said Troche was in possession of a handgun and high-capacity magazine; they charged him with driving while ability impaired by drugs and second- and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon. He will be held overnight at the Third Precinct in Bay Shore for arraignment at First District Court in Central Islip on Monday, police said.
A state courts website had not listed Troche's case or a defense lawyer as of Sunday afternoon.
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