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In this June 4, 2009 photo, Maximo Colon, left, and his brother Jose stand in front of a bar in the Queens borough of New York where they were arrested in a drug raid, accused of selling cocaine. The two have been vindicated by a security video from the bar that showed they never had any interaction with the undercover officers who accused them. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)

NEW YORK — When undercover detectives busted Jose and Maximo Colon last year for selling cocaine at a seedy club in Queens, there was a glaring problem: The brothers hadn't done anything wrong.

But proclaiming innocence wasn't going to be good enough. The Dominican immigrants needed proof.

As he glanced around a holding cell, the answer came to him: Security cameras. Since then, a vindicating video from the club's cameras has spared the brothers a possible prison term, resulted in two officers' arrest and become the basis for a multimillion-dollar lawsuit.