By Travis Andersen, Metro Desk @ The Boston Globe, July 18, 2013

A State Police sergeant, incensed by the controversial Rolling Stone magazine cover of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has released dramatic photographs of the apprehension of the accused terrorist to a local magazine without permission from his agency.

The pictures, taken by Sergeant Sean P. Murphy, a State Police tactical photographer who was working during the massive manhunt on April 19 in Watertown, first appeared on the website of Boston Magazine Thursday evening. Boston.com and other media outlets posted them afterward [....]

A spokeswoman for US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, whose staff is prosecuting Tsarnaev, said State Police have indicated they will be “taking action” in response to the leak.  “The release of these photos was completely unacceptable,” spokeswoman Christina DiIorio-Sterling said in a statement [....]

The release of the photos drew criticism from legal experts [....]