Man Posing as Officer Steals $50,000 in Bonds
Authorities were searching this week for a man who entered an elderly Glendale couple’s home by posing as a police officer, then stole bank bonds valued at $50,000 from the couple’s safe.
Police said the robbery suspect briefly displayed an oval silver badge in a black wallet while pretending to conduct a burglary investigation.
The incident occurred at 12:30 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of North Everett Street. Dorothy Gladys Stoft, 79, told police she was returning home from the market when a man approached her, flashed a badge and told her he was a police officer investigating a break-in at her home. Police said no break-in had taken place.
A heavyset man, who wore a straw hat, a yellow and orange flower-print shirt and light-colored slacks, told Stoft that two juvenile suspects were being held at his station and he needed to look for evidence inside her house, police said.
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