An off-duty New York City police detective has been arrested on a charge of drunken driving.
Police said Detective James O'Connell was arrested early Friday in Queens and charged with driving while intoxicated.
Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives Endowment Association, a police union, was out of town and unavailable for comment.
O'Connell is at least the third off-duty NYPD officer arrested on DWI and other charges since September.
On Wednesday, Officer Kevin Spellman pleaded not guilty to charges of fatally hitting a 70-year-old woman while driving drunk in the Bronx.
Officer Andrew Kelly has pleaded not guilty to DWI and vehicular manslaughter in the September death of a woman in Brooklyn.
Both officers have been suspended.
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