Couple charged in hit-and-run incident
7-year-old-child is hospitalized with serious injuries, police say
ELLENVILLE >> A Wawarsing couple was arrested by Ellenville Police Sunday in connection with a Thursday afternoon hit-and-run incident that left a seven-yearold child hospitalized with serious injuries.
The child, who was not identified, was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center with what police described as “serious physical injuries.”
Police arrested Nancy Ducker, 37, of Port Ben Road, Wawarsing, at 10:30 a.m. Sunday on a felony charge of leaving the scene of a serious injury personal injury auto accident, and the misdemeanors of reporting a false incident, obstructing governmental administration, operating a motor vehicle without a license, along with two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
Authorities also arrested her boyfriend, Larry Lipscomb, 54, also of Wawarsing, on the misdemeanors of reporting a false incident and obstructing governmental administration.
Police said Ducker was driving south on Hermance Street around 4:24 p.m. Thursday with her two children, 11 and 8, when she struck the 7-year-old. Authorities said she fled the scene of accident because she had no license.
Soon after, she met her boyfriend, and he agreed to tell authorities he was the
one driving the car, police said.
Authorities said the couple returned to the site of the accident and gave police a false statement.
Drucker and Lipscomb were both issued tickets to appear in Ellenville Village Court on Tuesday.
In 2004, the pair was arrested along with three others in the staging of a bank robbery in connection with an alleged embezzlement scheme in Ellenville.