Man accused of being fake cop charged as robber

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-impersonator09.html

Armed with a badge and a gun, Clifton Moorhead told his victims he was a police officer, authorities say.

But Moorhead, who allegedly robbed at least six people since 2003, was far from being a cop.

He's a career criminal who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1997 for carrying out as many as 20 robberies while impersonating a police officer, records show. He has 24 felony arrests, nine misdemeanor arrests and six convictions on his rap sheet. snip

Police said he cruised the West Side in a black van, preying on Hispanic victims. He spoke broken Spanish and would begin his ripoff by saying, "Do you speak English?" said Harrison Area Sgt. Warren Richards.

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[Mugweed]

1. There's a lot of that here in FL

Not just idiots posing as cops, but people who prey on the community of illegal immigrants. Only a handfull gets reported, because you would have to actually admit you're here illegally while reporting that you were robbed.

Of course, if you were stuck in an elevator for 3 days, they wouldn't deport you if you happened to be here illegally.

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2. This story hasn't received much media attention either if you've noticed

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/11/police.slayings/

2 former N.Y. cops charged as Mafia hit men

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Two former New York City police detectives face a federal court hearing in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Friday after being indicted on murder charges for allegedly acting as hit men for the Mafia more than 20 years ago.

According to the indictment from a federal grand jury in Brooklyn that was unsealed Thursday, Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito routinely passed confidential law enforcement information to the mob and killed rival gangsters.

The indictment alleges that the men's association with organized crime began in the early 1980s, when they started passing along information to high-ranking members and associates of the Luchese crime family, disclosing the identities of numerous cooperating witnesses and compromising several state and federal investigations.

Caracappa was a member of the New York Police Department's Organized Crime Homicide Unit, which he helped found. In his duties, he filled the role of gatekeeper for information about Mafia killings,The Associated Press reported.

Roslynn Mauskopf, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, described the men's actions as "a stunning betrayal of their shields, their colleagues and the citizens they were sworn to protect.

"For years, they were on retainer with the mob, they were paid handsomely for participating directly and indirectly in the murders and attempted murders of 11 individuals."

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3. Sure it did. It was all over cable news. Alot of shows on it. They

love the sexy news.

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4. You think we will see these guys walking in to court every day like MJ?

Be honest now.

Don

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5. Nope, they will make a plea deal. You will probably never hear another

word about it until some else tries to right a book or do a movie.