Jessica Beauvais was sentenced Wednesday for driving this vehicle during a fatal 2021 hit-and-run collision on the Long Island Expressway in Fresh Meadows.
Photo courtesy of the DA’s office
A Long Island woman was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for speeding through an NYPD roadblock while drunk and killing a highway patrolman in a 2021 hit-and-run collision on the Long Island Expressway in Fresh Meadows.
Jessica Beauvais, 35, of Myrtle Avenue in Hempstead, was convicted in October of aggravated manslaughter and other crimes following a 13-day trial in Queens Supreme Court. Beauvais had a blood alcohol level of twice the legal limit two hours after plowing into Detective Anastasios Tsakos while he was diverting traffic around another fatal collision, and then speeding away from the scene of the collision.
According to the charges and trial testimony, on Apr. 27, 2021, at approximately 1:45 a.m. Tsakos and his highway patrol partner placed traffic cones and a marked vehicle on the eastbound side of the Long Island Expressway near the Clearview Expressway exit to direct traffic around a fatal crash. Tsakos was standing just beyond the roadblock, at approximately 1:57 a.m., when Beauvais sped through the traffic cones behind the wheel of a 2013 Volkswagen Passat and struck him. The impact threw Tsakos and severed his left leg at the knee. His body landed nearly 170 feet away along the side of the highway.
Without stopping, Beauvais, whose license had been suspended, sped from the scene and exited the Long Island Expressway with the NYPD in pursuit for nearly three miles. She eventually drove up on a sidewalk in front of 221-22 Horace Harding Expwy. in Oakland Gardens, put her vehicle in reverse and stuck a police cruiser behind her. Beauvais was pulled from her vehicle by police and arrested.
She had bloodshot and watery eyes, slurred speech and a strong smell of alcohol on her breath. Two hours after the fatal collision, she had a blood alcohol…
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