The New York City police department sustained yet another black eye this week, after a member of the detective squad was placed on suspension when claims surfaced of him pilfering $3000 in cash from a deli being raided for untaxed cigarette sales, Gawker reports.

The detectives conducted the raid on Yemen Deli and Grocery store on Marcus Garvey Boulevard  on Friday night. The suspects accused of selling loose cigarettes were arrested on the scene.

ABC 7 interviewed the owner of the Bedford-Stuyvesant deli, Ali Abdullah, who realized that the cash had gone missing from a box under the cash register one day after the raid took place. Initially believing one of his employees had taken the money, Abdullah reviewed surveillance footage, but instead was shocked to see one of the detectives from the raid ducking behind the counter and grabbing the cash.

According to Abdullah, the surveillance video clearly shows one of the detectives taking the stack of money from the box, concealing himself behind the counter door and out of view of his supervisor, and then transferring the money to his coat pocket.

“When I look at my system, I see the officer took the money,” he said. “It’s crazy.”

The detective, Ian Cyrus, 49, who was assigned to the Brooklyn North narcotics unit, was suspended “based on the nature of the allegations in this incident, in addition to the video provided to us,” said Stephen Davis, top spokesman for the Police Department, in a statement on Thursday.

Detective Cyrus’s supervisor in the narcotics unit, Sgt. Fritz Glemaud, 44, has been placed on modified duty, Mr. Davis added.