{"id":317061,"date":"2026-08-09T04:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317061\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T04:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:04:15","slug":"retired-nypd-chief-dies-after-being-pulled-from-pool-at-long-island-home-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317061\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired NYPD chief dies after being pulled from pool at Long Island home, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A retired New York City police chief died Friday after drowning in a backyard pool on Long Island, police say.<\/p>\n<p>According to Suffolk County Police, a family member called 911 around 7:45 p.m. reporting that Anthony Izzo, 75, had been found unresponsive in the pool at his home on Malverne Lane in Stony Brook.<\/p>\n<p>When officers and Stony Brook Fire Department crews arrived, police say they pulled Izzo out of the pool and performed CPR.<\/p>\n<p>Izzo was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Suffolk County Police say they do not suspect any criminality. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2086233605731230014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in a post on X<\/a>\u00a0that Izzo served as chief of the Organized Crime Control Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as commanding officer of the 115th Precinct back in 1995,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPD115Pct\/status\/2086128320781930531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the NYPD said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His leadership and dedication to the people of New York City left a lasting legacy. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones. May he rest in peace,&#8221; one post read.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A retired New York City police chief died Friday after drowning in a backyard pool on Long Island,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-317061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}