Bill McLaughlin, a former Trenton Police department with 25 years on the force, cannot run his Knock Out Cafe in Florence, New Jersey without bread.
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At 5:30 a.m. every morning the delivery man drops off six dozen rolls for the day.
On April 4, that delivery driver ran into someone he believed was a police officer outside with a gun drawn.
"Red flags were going up," said McLaughlin. "He proceeded to search the truck which shows he knew nothing about law-enforcement and he was doing an illegal search."
Florence Township Police said at the time it may have been hard for the victim to spot the fake.
"There was a gold insignia on the shirt, some police equipment on the belt and the vehicle was a police-type vehicle," said Florence Township Police Det. James Ford.
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The imposter searched the delivery driver's pockets, accusing him of carrying drug paraphernalia.
"He patted him down and didn't realize that an asthma inhaler is not a marijuana pipe," said McLaughlin.
Detectives said the man posing as law enforcement didn't steal anything before leaving, but the violation was far from harmless. Investigators are now sharing a warning.
"That six sense starts to make you wonder if this is a true police interaction, you can certainly call 911," said Ford.
Three days after the incident at the Knock Out Café, investigators in Delanco received a report about two men posing as officers who searched a man's car, seemingly for no reason.
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The two departments are working together on the investigation.
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