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Posted: Thursday, 16 July 2009 11:56AM
Teen impostor cop gets probation in car case
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CHICAGO (STNG) -- The 15-year-old boy charged with impersonating a police officer and swiping a used Lexus from a South Side dealership after posing as an adult was sentenced this morning to three years of probation and one month of home confinement.
“I’m going to give you a chance, and I emphasize the word, ‘a.’ I’m giving you one chance,” Cook County Juvenile Court Judge Andrew Berman told the boy.
Berman said the boy had a habit of manipulating situations, and “You have to stop it right now. Ok?”
“Yes, sir,” said the boy, whose mother was also in court.
“You can control your behavior if you want to,” the judge said. “It’s in your hands.”
The boy was also ordered to attend the Evening Reporting program in conjunction with his home confinement, Cook County State’s Attorney’s office spokesman Andy Conklin said.
He must also participate in a mentoring program and was ordered to work with the Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program program for 10 days, Conklin said.
In January, the boy, then 14, made national headlines when he walked into the Grand Crossing District police station dressed in a police uniform and announced he was assigned to traffic patrol. He signed out a police radio and joined another officer in a patrol car for five hours, police and prosecutors said.
Months later, while on electronic monitoring for that crime, he walked into a used car lot and after convincing the owner he worked downtown, and drove off in a car without paying.
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