Authorities say 27-year-old driver of a Mercedes that fatally plowed into a 30-year-old woman crossing Brighton Beach Avenue over the weekend was on drugs at the time of arrest. Police sources told the NY Post that Ronald Suriano "had just smoked a PCP-laced cigarette"; the Daily News' sources say he was "high on heroin." Suriano was traveling over the 30 MPH speed limit--the victim's friend said, "It had to have been over 100 mph." Apparently......

The mother of the NYPD police officer killed when her friend and fellow cop drunkenly crashed on a Long Island highway spoke of forgiveness of the sentencing of Danielle Baymack. Baymack, who had been charged with DWI and vehicular manslaughter for the 2006 incident, pleaded guilty in exchange for what Newsday calls a "lenient sentence" of six months in jail and five years probation. Baymack and Marlene Rivera had both worked at the 103rd Precinct......