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The disgraced ex-Suffolk County police chief who botched
More On: the Gilgo Beach murder probe — and who went to federal
suffolk county police prison for beating a crook who stole his dildo and porn stash
— was arrested Tuesday morning for reportedly soliciting a
One dead after boat careens into
West Fire Island home prostitute in a Long Island park.

James Burke, 59, was picked up in the Suffolk County

Inside Gilgo Beach suspect’s
‘disturbing’ behavior before Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park by park rangers at about Driver, 19, dead in gnarly crash that
arrest – and why cops can’t rule 10:15 a.m. and charged with offering a sex act, public sent car engine flying through home
out another killer after fleeing from cops
lewdness, indecent exposure and criminal solicitation,
according to News12 Long Island.
Judge orders Gilgo Beach
murder suspect to submit DNA 90,710
sample He was allegedly trying to solicit a prostitute, TMZ reported.

Secluded wooded area near The charges will further blacken the reputation of the
Gilgo Beach suspect’s home county’s former top cop, who admitted that he roughed up
could hide more bodies: cold
case expert suspect Christopher Loeb in 2012 for snatching his sick
stash of sex goodies.

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Burke also had drug-addled trysts with hookers and once to friends as head collides with pole
fled from a drunken wreck, according to court records and various reports.

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He was sentenced in November 2016 to 46 months behind bars for assault and obstruction of justice, and
was released from federal prison in 2018.

Attorney John Ray, who represents the families of Gilgo Beach victims Jessica Taylor and Shannan
Gilbert, also said Burke did a bare-bones investigation into the serial murder case, freezing out the FBI
and other agencies working on the discovery of 11 bodies along Long Island’s South Shore in 2010.

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Bill castor
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Lets maga this shall we? It is a witch hunt, I am being persecuted was great l was the greatest
ever,crime was down. Everyone said so. Go fund me.
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Ed A
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Sometimes, a punk is just a punk. Who was the genius that saw Chief potential in this mutt?
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LiS Wright
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Ok, you know they're looking at the Chief as the 2nd killer.
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