BEDFORD-STUYVESANT (WABC) --
As first reported by Eyewitness News, a raid on a deli by an NYPD narcotics squad has resulted in one detective being suspended without pay and his supervisor put on desk duty.The store manager says that while police were arresting his workers for selling illegal cigarettes, one of them was robbing the store.
And all of it, he says, was caught on camera.
Five NYPD detectives raided the corner deli in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, arresting two employees accused of selling un-taxed cigarettes and taking money from the cash register and packs of cigarettes as evidence.
The next day, the 73rd Precinct provided manager Ali Abdullah with a receipt documenting that $593 had been seized during the raid. But then he noticed nearly $3,000 in store rent money missing from a box he kept hidden under the counter.
"I was thinking it was robbery, because I never seen the video," he said. "I'm missing $2,650. Two thousand six hundred and fifty, my rent money for the store, was in the box."
Abdullah, who wasn't in the store at the time of the raid, says he assumed employees were responsible.
"I thought the workers, it was the workers," he said. "They're stealing it."
That is, until he looked at the video from the store security cameras, which caught the raid and showed detectives making the arrests and bagging the register money and cigarettes for evidence. But Abdullah was stunned at what he saw next.
"They were taking it for themselves," he said. "Yes, yes."
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