A controversial ex-Long Island police chief accused of exposing himself to a male park ranger couldn’t have done the lewd act because “his interest lies toward the female,” his attorney claimed.

Charges against disgraced former Suffolk County police chief James Burke will be dismissed later this year because the officers who arrested him bungled the case, authorities said Wednesday, April 29.

A Suffolk judge will dismiss public lewdness and indecent exposure charges against former county Police Chief James Burke at the request of prosecutors who said disciplinary charges against parks ...