Boone County detectives have received surveillance photos from a Florence, Ky., retailer taken the day the man in the photos allegedly dressed like a police officer and robbed a woman.
The woman who was robbed, June 18, by a man posing as a police officer after he conducted a ‘traffic stop’ on Mount Zion Road near Union, Ky., Rachel Ross had described the perpetrator as a man who resembled the man in the surveillance photos.
Police said that at this point he is only a person of interest in this investigation.
Ross, 31, of Independence, claims she had just traveled through the intersection of Mount Zion and Gunpowder Roads near Union, going eastbound on Mount Zion Road in a white Toyota Camry when she was stopped by a black Ford Crown Victoria with tinted windows and red and blue lights in the grill and on the dash of the car.
She told police that she pulled over on a side street, which was Duncan Drive, and was approached by a white man described as approximately 5’10", weighing180-190 pounds, with short, dark hair, wearing a dark suit with a purple tie.
As he approached her car on foot, Ross said he displayed a black handgun and ordered her to give him her purse. She said that he removed her wallet and the cash inside, before returning both of them to her and then going back to his car and backing out onto Mount Zion Road and headed east, toward Interstate 75.
Investigators are asking anyone with information as to the identity of the person pictured (including the man himself) to contact either Crime Stoppers at (513) 352-3040 or the Boone County Sheriff’s Department at (859) 334-2175.
