By Craig McCarthy, Lee Brown and Amanda Woods
A suspect has been arrested over the notorious Gilgo Beach murders of up to 10 women on Long Island, a source told The Post Friday.
Multiple sources also confirmed that a suspect was in custody to News 12 Long Island, which first reported the arrest and said that First Avenue in Massapequa Park was “just flooded with police.”
State and Suffolk County police — both at the scene — did not confirm the arrest, the outlet said.
News 12 did not identify the suspect or detail what led to the reported breakthrough in what it called “one of the most intense, prolific searches for a serial killer ever.”
A spokesperson for Suffolk County Police was unable to confirm the arrest to The Post early Friday.
Fears of a serial killer emerged when the body of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, was found along Ocean Parkway on Dec. 11, 2010 — with the remains of three other women then found in the following days.
The so-called “Gilgo Four” — Barthelemy along with Megan Waterman, 22, Amber Lynn Costello, 27, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25 — were found whole, wrapped in burlap in 2011 about one-tenth of a mile apart from each other on the beach.
By spring 2011, the number of bodies had climbed to 10 — eight women as well as an unidentified man and toddler.
Friday’s reported arrest came after Suffolk County’s new police commissioner created a special Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force in February last year.
It included help from state police, local sheriffs, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office as well as the FBI.
“I believe this case is solvable and identifying the person or people responsible for these murders is a top priority,” Commissioner Rodney Harrison, the NYPD’s former chief of department, said at the time.
