Anastasios Tsakos

The Long Island woman accused of hitting and killing a NYC police officer while driving drunk on a highway pleaded not guilty in court, where prosecutors also revealed new details about the case. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

The woman charged with killing NYPD Officer Anastasio Tsakos while drunk driving and attempting to flee the scene faced a judge in a Queens courtroom Tuesday. Jessica Beauvais, 32, was arraigned on a 13-count indictment in which she faces multiple manslaughter charges, as well as two DUI counts, aggravated criminally negligent homicide, and a slew of other charges in connection…

A 32-year-old Long Island woman has been charged in a 13-count grand jury indictment with aggravated manslaughter, aggravated criminally negligent homicide and impaired driving, among other offenses, in the hit-and-run death of a veteran NYPD cop who was assisting at an accident scene last month. Jessica Beauvais was allegedly driving while intoxicated and with a suspended license when she hit…

A veteran NYPD officer who was struck and killed by an alleged drunken hit-and-run driver last week as he was directing traffic away from the scene of an earlier deadly crash was memorialized Tuesday at a funeral. News 4’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

A viewing for Officer Anastasios Tsakos, 43, was held Monday at St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Shrine Church in Greenlawn, Long Island. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A veteran NYPD officer who was struck and killed by an alleged drunken hit-and-run driver last week as he was directing traffic away from the scene of an earlier deadly crash was memorialized Tuesday at a funeral. Officer Anastasios Tsakos, 43, was on the Long Island Expressway in Queens exactly a week ago when he was struck by a car…

An NYPD highway officer has died after being hit by an alleged drunken driver as he investigated a crash scene on the Long Island Expressway early Tuesday, officials say. NBC New York’s John Chandler reports.