Commerce City police are looking for a tattooed man – dressed in a white T-shirt, dark coveralls with the sleeves cut off and wearing a black baseball cap – who claimed to be a police officer as he pulled over a car and tried to force the driver from the vehicle Saturday night.
The intended victim told police that he pulled over near Brighton Boulevard and York Street around 7 p.m. after a dark, older-model coupe flashed its lights at him several times.
The victim said a man approached his car and said he was a police officer.
When the driver questioned the suspect, the suspect asked the man to get out of his car.
The driver refused and drove off. The suspect did not follow.
The driver described the suspect as 6 feet tall, in his late 20s or early 30s, with a dark goatee, muscular build and tattoo-covered arms, according to Commerce City police.
Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval said the victim didn’t know if the impersonator was armed.
Sandoval said officers aren’t sure if this suspect is connected to several other cases of police impersonation that have occurred recently in the metro area.
“We just don’t have enough information to tie him to any other incidents,” Sandoval said.
Police advise anyone who isn’t sure of a police officer’s identity to ask to see a badge and identification card. Anyone pulled over by an unmarked police car should turn into a well-lit, populated area, or call 911 to confirm that it is a police car.
