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Off-Duty Officer Arrested for DWI After Staten Island Crash, Police Said

By Nicholas Rizzi | January 20, 2014 1:10pm
 NYPD officer Leif Tjornhom, 28, was arrested and charged with DWI after a car accident on Sunday, January 19, 2014.
NYPD officer Leif Tjornhom, 28, was arrested and charged with DWI after a car accident on Sunday, January 19, 2014.
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GRANITEVILLE — An off-duty NYPD officer was arrested for drunken driving after an early Sunday morning crash in Graniteville, police said.

Leif Tjornhom, 28, was arrested after he was involved in a car accident at Sanders Street and Forest Avenue about 4:51 a.m. on Sunday, police said.

Tjornhom was charged with driving while intoxicated and refusing to take a breathalyzer test, police said.