Carle Place woman pleads guilty to killing boyfriend while drunk

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'Just as jury selection in her trial was set to begin in Riverhead, Jesenia Vega admitted in court that she dragged her boyfriend to death as she drove away from a party, attorneys said Monday.
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Suffolk prosecutors said Vega had spent the night of July 21, 2007, drinking beer and tequila at a Centereach block party when she tried to leave in her sport utility vehicle.

Her boyfriend, Louis Wiederer, 26, tried to stop her, warning Vega she was too drunk to drive, prosecutors said.
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Vega's lawyer gave a different account of how the night unfolded, saying she was attempting to flee abuse.

Vega decided to leave the party after Wiederer threatened, berated, then physically attacked her, McCann said.
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Reached at her Westbury home, Wiederer's mother, Barbara Dempsey, 47, acknowledged that her son's relationship with Vega was volatile, and she recalled seeing physical abuse on both sides. "Those two together created violence," she said.'