By Craig McCarthy, Lee Brown and Amanda Woods
A suspected serial killer has been arrested over the notorious Gilgo Beach murders in Long Island, The Post can confirm.
The suspect — who has yet to be identified — is due in court in hours, according to a source close to the investigation.
He is being looked at over the so-called “Gilgo Four,” women found wrapped in burlap within days of each other from late 2010, and not the other six who were later eyed as possibly being connected, the source said.
Multiple sources first confirmed the arrest to News 12 Long Island, which said that First Avenue in Massapequa Park was “just flooded with police.”
State and Suffolk County police — both at the scene since the early hours — did not officially confirm the arrest Friday.
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.”
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 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.
