Crime & Safety

Nassau Police Searching Massapequa Preserve

BREAKING: Police have not said what they are searching the area for. A man's body was found there in 2017.

Nassau police are currently searching the Massapequa Preserve, an area where a teenage was murdered last year.

Police said they are investigating the area, but would not say what the investigation was related to.

According to Newsday, DEA agents are also searching the preserve.

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Last April, police found the body of 19-year-old Julio Cesar Gonzales-Espantzay, of Valley Stream, in the preserve. He had been stabbed to death in what appeared to be a killing by MS-13, police said. Four men have been arrested in connection with his murder.

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