The lastest incident of this ongoing trend in Cleveland occured Sunday evening.
CLEVELAND — Cleveland Police are investigating several robberies involving suspects impersonating officers by displaying emergency-type lights on their vehicles, pulling victims over and robbing them at gunpoint, prompting the division to urge residents to be vigilant on the roads.
After directing the man to walk off, one of the individuals reportedly entered the man's vehicle and fled while the others fled in the vehicle impersonating law enforcement, which is possibly a dark-colored Honda Accord.A man who told police he was buying cell phones from an individual in the area of East 152nd Street and Lakeshore Avenue reported being robbed at gunpoint by individuals impersonating law enforcement.
The two told police that four individuals wearing all black, ski masks, hoodies and ballistic vests with firearms—believed to be a 9mm, AK-47, shotgun and a DRACO—exited the SUV and pulled the two from the vehicle. The individuals searched the two victims while pointing a gun at the back of the man's head. The individuals took the man's watch and cell phone, asked for his ID, which was in his vehicle, and proceeded to search and take it.
The man, who told police he is a valid CCW license holder, attempted to draw his firearm, but was unable to before they pointed their weapons at him. The individuals then instructed the man to exit his vehicle and lay face down on the ground. The individuals took his firearm and two entered his vehicle before fleeing the scene in both vehicles.
"If you are pulled over by an unmarked vehicle and you feel unsafe, you do have every right to go ahead and call 911. And our dispatchers would be able to tell you if that is Cleveland police that you're out with." "I ask myself, I grew up in the streets on the East Side here, 'What's the motivation? What's prompting you to do this?' The carjackings, the rivalries, the assaults that we're seeing with this, age is getting lower and lower. I don't understand it myself," Polensek said.
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