Mahopac Man Charged With DWI, Resisting Arrest

Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports the arrest of a Mahopac man on charges of DWI and resisting arrest. On September 27, 2015 at approximately 7:50 a.m., Deputy Sheriff Matthew Tunney responded to a 911 report of a property damage auto accident on Secor Road in Mahopac.

The deputy arrived less than a minute later to observe a male subject standing outside a vehicle that had been driven into a stone wall. The male subject began to walk away from the deputy and repeatedly ignored the deputy’s commands to return to the scene. An eyewitness to the accident identified the male subject as the driver. When the deputy again commanded the male subject to return to the scene of the accident in order to investigate the accident, the man became physically combative with the deputy and attempted to grab one of the deputy’s weapons. The deputy subdued and arrested the man, identified as Maikhaz Gvaladze, 49, of 160 East Lake Boulevard, Mahopac. The deputy charged Mr. Gvaladze with Driving While Intoxicated and with Resisting Arrest, misdemeanors, after the man failed a series of standardized field sobriety tests.

The defendant was arraigned before Town of Southeast Justice Gregory Folchetti and committed to the Putnam County Correctional Facility in lieu of $1,000.00 cash bail or $2,000.00 bond pending a future appearance in the Town of Carmel Justice Court to answer the charges. If found guilty of the misdemeanor charges, the defendant faces up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.00 for each charge.