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FIRE I. POLICE ARE ACQUITTED

An acting Fire Island police chief and another officer have been cleared of all charges stemming from a tourist’s alleged August 2005 beating.

A jury in Riverhead, LI, rejected yesterday and on Friday prosecutors’ claims that Acting Ocean Beach Chief George Hesse beat the tourist and that Officer Arnold Hardman helped cover it up. The defense claimed the tourist fell in a drunken stupor.