Boat Dedication Honors Suffolk PD Marine Bureau Officers

ISLIP, NY — The memory of two Suffolk County Police Marine Bureau Officers who passed away from cancer will be honored with a vessel dedication ceremony on Friday, according to the police department.

Officers Brian Dwyer and Matthew Wargas will be honored by a vessel dedication ceremony led by Suffolk County Police Acting Commissioner Robert Waring on Friday, June 14, at 11 a.m., at the Marine Bureau on the grounds of Timber Point Country Club in Great River.

Dwyer, who joined the SCPD in 1992 and transferred to the Marine Bureau in 2002, was diagnosed with peritoneal cancer in 2016 and retired in July 2018, just five months before his death in December of that year.

Wargas joined the SCPD in 2002 and moved to Marine Bureau for the summers of 2007 to 2009 before earning a full-time spot in the command in 2010. He was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2014 and retired in January 2016 just more than six months before his death in August 2016.

The ceremony will take place at the Marine Bureau, located at 150 River Road in Great River.