CROCKERY TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Oct. 21, 2022) – A 56-year-old Muskegon woman was victimized by a man who wanted to play cop in order to be a robber during the overnight hours on Friday morning near Nunica.
According to Ottawa County Sheriff’s Detective Sergeant Jeremy Baum, the unnamed woman was driving her vehicle westbound on I-96 near the 10 mile marker around 1 AM when she saw a vehicle behind her with overhead flashers, indicating that she should pull over. Thinking that it was a law enforcement vehicle, the woman stopped her vehicle on the shoulder.
A tall Caucasian man, with a thin build and scruffy facial hair, wearing a dark-colored jacket with “some sort of badge” on his chest, took the woman’s wallet by force and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash, along with credit cards. The victim was shaken but unhurt, and she told deputies that the vehicle that pulled her vehicle over was a black or dark blue four-door sedan with the word “police” in white lettering on the passenger side, and with those overhead lights.
Baum said that the vehicle doesn’t match any current Sheriff’s Department road patrol cruisers, and that there have been no other calls of a similar nature involving a police impersonator in this way.
Anyone with any information on this incident is asked to contact the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department or Silent Observer (877-887-4536).
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