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< Back to Previous Page Cop Admits to DUI Crash That Killed an Astoria Man A former city housing officer admitted Monday to a 2006 drunken driving incident which led to the death of an Astoria man on the lower level of the Queensboro Bridge. Brandon Colon, 31, a former housing officer in Harlem who lives in St. Albans, pleaded guilty before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carol Berkman to charges of manslaughter and driving while intoxicated. Colon, a five-year veteran of the police force, was arrested in late March 2006 after he drove drunk through barriers on the bridge's outer roadway and struck Astoria artist Julio Alberto Ortega-Moncada, 31, who was walking on the Queens-bound outer roadway taking photographs. Colon, who was off-duty at the time of the accident, admitted Monday that he had been drinking for about two hours at a bar before driving onto the roadway.  The defendant said that he was driving too fast when his car hit something and he stopped briefly, but then kept on driving. Colon has been suspended from the police force.