Lyft driver arrested for driving with 17 license suspensions.
A man was arrested Saturday on Long Island, New York, while driving for Lyft after a check of his driver's license revealed it had been suspended 17 times.
Leith Crossen, 57, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, was in a Volkswagen Jetta near Cold Spring Harbor train station. An officer responding to a 911 call of a possible intoxicated driver found him stopped in his car at about 9:35 p.m., Suffolk County police said. Crossen was not intoxicated, police said. He had just dropped off a passenger and was out of gas. A check of his driver's license showed it had been suspended 17 times, according to police.He was scheduled to be arraigned on Sunday at Suffolk County District Court. It was not immediately clear whether he had a lawyer.
Lyft did not immediately respond to NBC News' inquiry on whether Crossen was still employed by the ride-share company.
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