The Daily News has obtained surveillance video of a Sept. 11, 2007, police raid at a West Oak Lane grocery store.
The following is a transcript of the raid before the officers — all from the Narcotics Field Unit — cut the wires to the store's surveillance camera, cutting off the audio feed:
OFFICER THOMAS TOLSTOY: Hand me the phone. Gimme the phone.
STORE OWNER JOSE DURAN: Hey, I work here.
TOLSTOY: Put your hands on your head.
DURAN: I'm the owner.
OFFICER ANTHONY PARROTTI: Put your hands on your head.
DURAN: I'm the owner. I'm the owner of the store.
(inaudible)
SGT. JOSEPH BOLOGNA: How many people are in here?
DURAN: I'm the owner of the store. I'm talking to my brother-in-law
BOLOGNA: Who else is in the store? ... You work here? You work here? Anybody else in the store?
(inaudible)
TOLSTOY: Put your hands behind your back ... Is there a gun in this store?
DURAN: No.
TOLSTOY: You're allowed to have one. I just want to know for my protection.
DURAN: I no have nothing in the store.
(inaudible)
OFFICER THOMAS KUHN: You got anything on youse? No? OK. Anybody else — put your hands on your head. Anybody else in the back?
STORE WORKER: No. No, it's just you and me, working in the back. (inaudible)
BOLOGNA: Anybody live on the second floor, pal?
DURAN: No. Nobody lives there.
BOLOGNA: Do you have a basement here?
DURAN: Yes.
TOLSTOY: Is there any dogs in the basement?
