New York State Police arrested a Baldwinsville man Feb. 1 for driving while intoxicated on the Thruway.

State Police stopped a vehicle  for multiple vehicle and traffic violations on I-90 in the town of Sullivan around 11 p.m. Feb. 1. The driver of the vehicle, Michael L. Nicolette, 37, of Baldwinsville, was found to be intoxicated. 

Nicolette was taken into custody, transported and processed at SP Syracuse, where his blood alcohol content was determined to be 0.17%. He was charged with driving while intoxicated, an unclassified misdemeanor.

Nicolette was turned over to a sober third party and released on an appearance ticket returnable to the Town of Sullivan Court on March 2.

Lysander man charged in assault on baby

The Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office reports that a town of Lysander man has been charged in connection with causing serious injuries to his infant son.

Sheriff’s detectives assigned to the Abused Persons Unit responded to Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital on Feb. 2 at the request of Onondaga County’s Office of Children and Family Services to investigate an assault on a 2-month-old. The infant, who had been medically evaluated by doctors, was determined to have suffered a severe hemorrhage to the brain.

As a result of the investigation, detectives charged the infant’s father, Cody Ordway, 27, of Hillside Road, Baldwinsville. Ordway is accused of shaking the infant, causing serious injuries to the infant’s brain. Ordway was charged Feb. 3 with reckless assault of a child and endangering the welfare of a child. He was arraigned in Centralized Arraignment Court with bail set at $2,000 cash or $5,000 bond. He has since bonded out.

The infant remains in the hospital.