{"id":317065,"date":"2026-08-09T04:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317065\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T04:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:12:09","slug":"former-nypd-chief-drowns-in-backyard-pool-on-long-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317065\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NYPD chief drowns in backyard pool on Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByEyewitness News  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/origin-wabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, August 9, 2026 3:38AM<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Izzo served as chief of the Organized Crime Control Bureau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">STONY BROOK, Long Island (WABC) &#8212; A former NYPD chief drowned in his backyard pool on Long Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Suffolk County Police responded to a home on Malvern Lane in Stony Brook on Friday just before 8 p.m., where they found Anthony Izzo unresponsive in a pool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Izzo, 75, who lived at the home, was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Izzo served as chief of the Organized Crime Control Bureau. He was also commanding officer of the 115 Precinct in Queens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The NYPD said that &#8216;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.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say his death does not appear to be criminal in nature.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByEyewitness News Sunday, August 9, 2026 3:38AM Anthony Izzo served as chief of the Organized Crime Control Bureau.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[119516,98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-317065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-119516","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317065","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=317065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}