DA: Toxic materials dumped in Long Island wetlands

DEER PARK, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island prosecutor says he believes the same people who dumped toxins at a park and a veterans’ housing development are responsible for similar substances recently found in a wetlands area.

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said Friday that testing found asbestos and other hazardous materials in the six-acre Deer Park wetlands. It’s adjacent to a creek in the Great South Bay watershed.