http://nypost.com/2015/04/09/nypd-detective-caught-on-tape-stealing-over-3k-at-bodega-cops/A Brooklyn detective was caught on surveillance video pocketing around $3,000 in cash from a bodega he and his fellow cops were raiding for selling loose cigarettes, cops said.Twelve year NYPD veteran Ian Cyrus, was suspended without pay after the store’s owner noticed the money was missing from a cigar box stashed beneath the counter and reported the incident to his bosses, police said.
“I was shocked it was a cop,” said store manager Ali Abdullah, who made the discovery after he went back and looked at the security footage. “I [can understand] a thief coming inside the store and stealing, but cops? No.”
Cyrus, a member of the Brooklyn North Narcotics squad, entered the Yemen Deli and Grocery store on Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant last Friday night with several other cops after receiving a tip the employees were selling the loose cigarettes.
Surveillance video shows Cyrus stuffing a wad of bills into his pocket as the officers conducted a search of the store after arresting Faladh Al Awadhy, 23 and Ghazi Alkasri, 34 and charging them with selling unstamped cigarettes.
It wasn’t until the following day that store owner Ali Abdullah noticed the money was missing from a cigar box he kept under the counter, he said, adding that the money was supposed to go toward the businesses’ rent.
“At first I’m thinking my employees took the money,” he said. “I had to ask them where did the money go. They were mad that I accuse them.”
Abdullah went back and looked at the store’s elaborate 12 camera surveillance system and witnessed the cop emptying the cigar box and then pocketing the money.
“He’s a cop but I don’t know how he thinks he’s going to get away with it,” he said. “We got them.”
Abdullah reported the detective to the NYPD and the incident is currently being investigated by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau and the Brooklyn District Attorneys’ office.
Cyrus has been suspended pending the outcome of that investigation. His supervisor, Sgt. Fritz Glemaud, is currently on modified assignment, according to a NYPD spokesperson.
