Police imposter stops woman in Adams County
By Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published February 20, 2008 at 2:09 p.m.
Updated February 20, 2008 at 4:09 p.m.
The rash of police impersonations in metro Denver continues, with Adams County reporting today that an apparently drunk man with a flashing blue light in his car pulled over a woman early Tuesday.
It marks at least the fifth time in recent weeks that metro Denver police agencies have reported someone posing as a police officer.
In the Adams County case, the suspect stopped the woman driver near East 96th Avenue and Monaco Street, about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday.
He used a flashing blue light, which was inside his car on the dashboard, and asked for the woman's driver's license, Sheriff Department spokeswoman Candi Baker said.
The woman was alert enough to notice that the person smelled of alcohol and immediately doubted that he was a police officer, Baker said.
Instead of showing her driver's license to him, she managed to roll her window up, lock her door and take off.
The suspect was driving a white, four-door sedan, Baker said. The suspect is a white or Hispanic male, 25 to 27 years old, between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-9 inches tall and weighing about 190 pounds. His hair is brown and in a crew cut, and he was clean-shaven. He was wearing a light-colored shirt beneath blue overalls.
Anyone with information should call the Adams County Sheriff's Office, at 720-322-1313.
A woman in Boulder County last weekend reported that a man posing as a police officer flashed the headlights of his white Crown Victoria to convince a passenger in a car to exit the vehicle. He told her he was going to perform a roadside sobriety test, then touched the woman's breast and buttocks before the woman was able to get away, according to a police report.
Denver police are investigating a case of suspected police impersonation involving a man who pulled over a couple driving east on East 47th Avenue and Race Street on Jan. 30. In that case, the suspect used red and blue emergency lights in his car, police say.
When the people who were stopped asked to see a police ID, the suspect went back to his car and drove away.
Two days earlier, someone posing as a cop pulled over a woman near 35th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, stole money from her car and briefly handcuffed her, Denver police say.
Two weeks earlier, two men told Denver police that a man posing as a cop stopped them on Santa Fe Drive. Witnesses said that man is white, about 6 feet tall and 185 pounds. He was wearing a dark blue shirt with "Police" written on front.
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