Fake NYPD Cops Rob Jewelry Store

[Zappa]

2 men pose as cops, steal more than $150,000 in brazen daytime jewelry store heist

Two men who posed as NYPD officers and robbed a New York City jewelry store in a brazen daytime heist have been arrested.

abcnews.go.com

I posted this here because of the ruse they used to disarm the store owner.
How did they know the store owner had a NYC licensed pistol ???
I wonder if they used the list of licensed handgun owners that the NYT maliciously published for all to see ???

 

[enbloc]

 

[SKumar]

Always demand name and badge number with any police interaction. "In this day and age, with everything going on in the world right now", it's all about your safety.

 

[amm5061]

 

[wilson911]

Always demand name and badge number with any police interaction.

They love when you do this. Go ahead and ask for his Seargent too, Karen.

If you're really looking for some fun, throw around the term "sovereign citizen".

 

[robjax]

very clever.

 

[SKumar]

They love when you do this. Go ahead and ask for his Seargent too, Karen.

If you're really looking for some fun, throw around the term "sovereign citizen".

I don't think it's Karen at all. A public professional would identify himself as the law dictates. Not sure why this triggered you. It's a public safety issue.

 

[wilson911]

A public professional would identify himself as the law dictates

Because cops love to follow laws.


View: https://youtu.be/UoZKSPzjx-A

 

[garandman]

“Igartua and Rodriguez were apprehended a short time later in a subway station several blocks from the location.”

 

[Christian]

I've always wondered why the nitwits haven't just gone to ebay or other places to buy cop gear and sneak in and move about unmolested among LE when riots are happening. The havoc they could cause inside the group could be either tragic or hysterical given the SOP of escalation. Before you know it the cops would be fighting/tazing themselves trying to figure out who's legit and who isn't.

Very popcorn worthy to say the least.

 

[Zappa]

“Igartua and Rodriguez were apprehended a short time later in a subway station several blocks from the location.”

This is probably the most amazing part of the story, the real cops actually caught the guys pretty quick.

 

[MisterHappy]

Well, pretending to be cops worked at the Gardner Museum.....