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Dormer: Detective squabble didn't jeopardize crime scene

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer.

Photo credit: Newsday File / Ana P. Gutierrez | Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer.

On the night that Edgar Villalobos lay dead on a bloody Brentwood street July 20, a Suffolk County Police supervisor telephoned five members of the homicide squad, the elite detectives who typically swarm a murder scene like this one.

But this time, he got nothing but voice mail for three of them. A fourth wasn't home, according to a relative who answered. And a fifth detective picked up his...

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