Busted (27 page)

Michael Days, editor of the
Philadelphia Daily News
.
(Jessica Griffin/Staff Photographer/
Philadelphia Daily News
)

The first article about Benny Martinez, featuring a silhouette photograph of him to conceal his identity, ran on the front page of the February 9, 2009, edition of the
Philadelphia Daily News
under a headline that would come to define the series.
(Courtesy of
Philadelphia Daily News
)

Lady Gonzalez, the first woman to say that she was sexually assaulted by a Philadelphia Narcotics Field Unit officer during a raid.
(Sarah J. Glover/Staff Photographer/
Philadelphia Daily News
)

Brian Tierney
(right)
, owner of the
Philadelphia Daily News
, after the first day of the 2009 bankruptcy hearing at Philadelphia's Federal Courthouse.
(Elizabeth Robertson/Staff Photographer/
Philadelphia Inquirer
)

From left:
Philadelphia police commissioner Charles Ramsey; Janice Fedarcyk, special agent in charge of the FBI's Philadelphia field office; and Mayor Michael Nutter at a joint press conference held on February 13, 2009, to address Wendy and Barbara's story.
(Alejandro A. Alvarez/Staff Photographer/
Philadelphia Daily News
)

John McNesby, president of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police, speaks out against the
Philadelphia Daily News
at a February 25, 2009, press conference. George Bochetto, Jeff Cujdik's lawyer, is on the right.
(David Maialetti/Staff Photographer/
Philadelphia Daily News
)

Just some of the boxes of search warrants that Wendy and Barbara waded through for their stories.
(Courtesy of the authors)

This frame of surveillance video from Jose Duran's store shows Narcotics Field Unit officer Anthony Parrotti poised to cut the camera wires with a bread knife. The frame was run on the front page of the March 30, 2009, edition of the
Philadelphia Daily News
.
(Courtesy of Jose Duran and
Philadelphia Daily News
)

Another still, which was published in the
Philadelphia Daily News
with faces blurred, shows Narcotics Field Unit officer Thomas Tolstoy
(foreground)
checking out the camera. Cujdik is directly behind him. Tolstoy was identified by at least three women as the officer who sexually assaulted them during raids.
(Courtesy of Jose Duran)

The aftermath of the Philadelphia Narcotics Unit raid on Jose Duran's store.
(Courtesy of Jose Duran)

Angel Castro hugs his Thayer Street neighbor Dagma Rodriguez, another woman who said she was assaulted by Officer Tolstoy.
(David Maialetti/Staff Photographer/
Philadelphia Daily News
)

“Naomi,” the third of Officer Tolstoy's alleged sexual assault victims to come forward, appears in silhouette on the cover of the June 17, 2009, edition of the
Philadelphia Daily News
.
(David Maialetti/Staff Photographer/
Philadelphia Daily News
, courtesy of
Philadelphia Daily News
)