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NYPD detective accused of torching ‘cheating’ hubby’s clothes is all grins

The NYPD detective arrested for allegedly torching her cop hubby’s clothes in a jealous rage flashed a big grin before and after her Long Island arraignment on Wednesday — and was ordered to get her head examined.

Detective Marissa Sorocco, 34, who sources said suspected her husband of cheating on her, said nothing during her arraignment at Nassau County District Court, but smirked as she was released without bail.

Prosecutors claimed that Sorocco, who works in NYPD Deputy Commissioner Dermot Shea’s office at Police Headquarters, set the blaze in her husband’s closet in their Plainview home’s master bedroom.

The flames, which destroyed about $200 worth of clothing, were extinguished by the time firefighters arrived.





Prosecutors said the couple’s two children were home at the time.

But Sorocco’s lawyer, James Moschella, claimed that her children were elsewhere and were never in any danger.

During the arraignment, Judge Paul Meli granted a request from prosecutors that Sorocco get a psychiatric evaluation.

An order fully blocking Sorocco from seeing her husband, Nassau County Officer Paul Sorocco, and her children, Madison and Tyler, also was granted until she gets visitation through Family Court.

Prosecutors agreed to let Sorocco return to the two-story home with a police escort after the arraignment to get her personal belongings.

“She will be staying at her father’s house for Thanksgiving,” Moschella said.

Her father was present during the arraignment.

Shortly after the court session, uniformed Nassau County officers and another man in a suit pulled up to the Sorocco home in three cars and let themselves in through a side door.





They emerged holding a woman’s handbag and a shopping bag.

Investigators believe that Sorocco ignited the blaze because she was convinced her husband had been having an affair, sources said, but there was no mention of the suspected infidelity in court.

According to a criminal complaint, an investigation into the cause and origin of the blaze “ruled out accidental, electrical [or] natural mean of ignition.”

Marissa Sorocco — wearing a black leather jacket, skintight black pants and thigh-high black boots — also was grinning Wednesday morning hours before her arraignment as she was walked out of a police station after being held overnight.

She has been suspended by the NYPD from her job in Crime Control Strategies pending the outcome of the criminal case.

Marissa Sorocco was paid a total of $133,618 in 2016, according to data posted by SeeThrough NY.

Additional reporting by Reuven Fenton





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