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Suffolk top cops to tackle drug probe, Gilgo

Suffolk County Police Chief of Department James Burke,

Photo credit: Newsday/Thomas A. Ferrara | Suffolk County Police Chief of Department James Burke, front, and acting Police Commissioner Edward Webber, behind, speak with Newsday during an interview at police headquarters. (Jan. 2, 2012)

New leaders of the Suffolk Police Department pledged Monday to tackle the county's highest-profile issues, saying they'll assign a special detective to a grand jury probe of painkiller prescriptions and convene an all-day meeting with investigators in the unsolved Gilgo Beach murders.

With Nassau police naming a parolee from Suffolk as the suspect in Saturday's Seaford pharmacy robbery, Suffolk...

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