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?
DURAN: No, no dogs in the basement.
BOLOGNA: No?
PARROTTI: Why is that door locked up there? There's one door locked.
(inaudible)
DURAN: That's not my property. That's somebody else's property.
BOLOGNA: Who lives in there?
BOLOGNA: Whaddya got, cameras over there?
DURAN: Yeah.
BOLOGNA: Where are they hooked up to?
TOLSTOY: Right here. Here's the monitor.
DURAN: You see the monitor, right?
BOLOGNA: Yeah.
TOLSTOY: No gun, right?
DURAN: No.
TOLSTOY: You're allowed to have one.
DURAN: No, no, I no have one anyway because I'm not — (inaudible)
OFFICER RICHARD CUJDIK: Is that recording? Is that recording right now? ... You have a gun in here?
DURAN: No. No.
R. CUJDIK: It's your store?
DURAN: Yes.
R. CUJDIK: You have a safe in here?
DURAN: No.
R. CUJDIK: Is there a safe in here?
DURAN: No.
R. CUJDIK: What's upstairs?
DURAN: Empty.
R. CUJDIK: Empty? What's in the basement?
DURAN: Merchandise, like-
R. CUJDIK: Whose ATM machine?
DURAN: Ahh ...
R. CUJDIK: Yours?
DURAN: No. The company (pause) called Fast Cash.
R. CUJDIK: OK. ... There's no gun in here, right?
DURAN: No.
R. CUJDIK: You're allowed to have a gun in here.
DURAN: No, I don't have any.
R. CUJDIK: You have any illegal drugs in here?
DURAN: No.
R. CUJDIK: You have any paraphernalia in here? Twelve-twelves [tiny bags often used for drugs]?
DURAN: What you mean twelve-twelves?
R. CUJDIK: The baggies. You got twelve-twelves?
DURAN: I sell that only for green and —
R. CUJDIK: You have some?
DURAN: A little bit, yeah.
R. CUJDIK: Where they at?
DURAN: Right there.
R. CUJDIK: Right where?
TOLSTOY: I got it, right here.
KUHN: You got 'em?
R. CUJDIK: You got any in the basement?
DURAN: No.
R. CUJDIK: You got no cases?
DURAN: No.
R. CUJDIK: You got your car outside?
TOLSTOY: Did you say you sold out?
DURAN: What?
TOLSTOY: Did you say you sold out?
DURAN: No. No.
ONE OF THE OFFICERS: He only got a couple colors.
TOLSTOY: Oh, you sold out of green.
R. CUJDIK: That stuff's illegal, boss.
DURAN: Oh, I don't know. I buy the business-
R. CUJDIK: OK, it don't matter. You should know your business.
OFFICER JEFFREY CUJDIK: There's a recording device ...
DURAN: (inaudible)
R. CUJDIK: You have cats in here, too?
(J. CUJDIK asks a young store patron where he lives, what's his name, and his age. J. CUJDIK tells him that he can go.)
R. CUJDIK: There's cameras all over the place.
KUHN: There's one here.
R. CUJDIK: Where's the video cameras? The cassette for it?
J. CUJDIK: Does it record? Does it record? I'm gonna seize it as evidence because you're selling drug paraphernalia. So we gotta get rid of it (inaudible). You got yourself on video selling drug paraphernalia.
R. CUJDIK: It's illegal, boss. It's illegal.
TOLSTOY: I got, like, seven or eight eyes.
KUHN: There's three right there.
R. CUJDIK: Is there more downstairs?
DURAN: No. No ... (inaudible)
TOLSTOY: Listen to me. There's one outside. There is one, two, three, four in the aisles, and there's one right here somewhere.
R. CUJDIK: There's one in the back.
BOLOGNA: We'll take care of that.
DURAN: Can I call my — Can I call my wife?
TOLSTOY: No, you cannot call anybody. Not right now. You cannot call anybody.
R. CUJDIK: Just cooperate with us. Everything's gonna be cool, OK?
STORE WORKER: Ooh, Ooh, Ooh. That's OK. I work in the store. You know what I mean?
R. CUJDIK: You live in Jersey?
DURAN: Yeah. My wife come and get me.
R. CUJDIK: Is that your — Whose white van is that?
DURAN: That's my wife's. She ... (inaudible)
R. CUJDIK: Where's the key to it?
STORE WORKER: The key to the store?
R. CUJDIK: I need the key to the store, and also, where's the key to the van? You got the key to the van?
STORE WORKER: No, just the key to the store.
KUHN: I need to be f---ing taller. You got a ladder in here, Cuz?
DURAN: In the back.
KUHN: In the back?
TOLSTOY: Yo, does this camera go home? Can you view this on your computer, too?
DURAN: I can see, yeah, home, yeah.
TOLSTOY: So your wife knows we're here, then?
DURAN: My wife? No. She not looking the computer right now. Like I'm not here ... (inaudible)
TOLSTOY: Hey sarge?
BOLOGNA: Yeah.
TOLSTOY: Come 'ere.
J. CUJDIK: There's one in the back corner, right there.
TOLSTOY: It can be viewed at home.
BOLOGNA: OK, we'll disconnect it. That's cool.
(screen goes black, audio only)
BOLOGNA: They could watch what's happening at the store at your house?
DURAN: (inaudible).
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