Again a woman alleges indecent assault by same cop during a narcotics raid

June 17, 2009|By BARBARA LAKER & WENDY RUDERMAN, lakerb@phillynews.com 215-854-5933
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An Internal Affairs investigator and an FBI agent showed up at Naomi's apartment last week and asked questions about her assertion that two officers stopped her two days after the raid, threatening and handcuffing her, according to Naomi.

 

Tolstoy out of action

 

Last month, on May 20, police brass again put Tolstoy on desk duty and this time took his service weapon.

DiLacqua declined to give a specific reason.

"If other information looks bad, if it starts to look more serious, we have to ratchet up. . . .'" he said. "That's what happened. Based on other information, we ratcheted up."

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From Jan. 12 to May 20, Tolstoy participated in 30 drug raids, according to a Daily News review of search warrants.

During that time, Internal Affairs received no new complaints from women about Tolstoy, DiLacqua said.

Naomi, Lady Gonzalez and Dagma Rodriguez say they are sure that Tolstoy is the officer who groped or sexually assaulted them.

All three women immediately identified Tolstoy after watching a video of a grocery-store raid that included six officers. The women viewed the video separately and without suggestive prompting by reporters.

In the video, first posted on the Daily News Web site, at philly.com, on March 30, Tolstoy is among six officers seen and heard in a September 2007 raid of a West Oak Lane grocery store.

"I'm positive. I know that's the guy who did that to me," Naomi said, while watching the video.

Just seeing his face churned up renewed anger and shame, she said.

She has been in therapy the past five months. Her mom pays for the twice-weekly sessions.

Naomi said she's trying to work through "what triggered in my mind that night."

"You could call it rape, but it wasn't rape. But it did something to my personality.

"It just affected everything." *

 

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