You’ve heard of the movie “Three Men and a Baby.”
Thanks to a special delivery in Shirley, the Suffolk County Police Department can now be known as “Three Cops and a Baby.”
That’s because three SCPD officers sprung into action to help deliver a baby girl on the side of Sunrise Highway who could not and would not wait to be welcomed into the world.
Seventh Precinct Officers Joseph Lacey, Brendan Nappi, and Jonathan Verity responded to a 911 call of a woman in active labor inside a Honda Accord on the shoulder of Sunrise Highway, near William Floyd Parkway, during heavy rain.
Officers Lacey, Nappi and Officer Verity—who graduated from the Suffolk County Police Academy on Friday—assisted the 37-year-old Mastic Beach woman to deliver the healthy baby girl and wrap her in a blanket.
Shirley Community Ambulance arrived shortly after and transported the healthy mother and baby to Stony Brook University Hospital.