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Home Depot 72nd Street Omaha
By Alex Hassel |
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Posted: Wed 5:58 PM, Mar 20, 2013 |
Updated: Wed 6:50 PM, Mar 20, 2013
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Impersonating an administrator isn’t article you appetite to be answerable for and aggressive addition with a gun is an alike bigger problem. A man was arrested for accomplishing that in ample aurora and in a active parking lot. However, the absolute badge can’t get him to explain himself.
The victim, visiting from out of town, tells Channel 6 News he didn’t apperceive what to do in the Home Depot parking lot abreast North 72nd Street and Ames Avenue in Omaha. At first, he saw red and dejected aflame lights, again a man claiming to be a cop banged on his window.
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"It's disturbing,” says Sgt. Joseph Wherry. “It's actual disturbing. The victim did what any victim should do, he yelled for addition to alarm police."
Police say the declared impersonator, Jim Gilot, alike looked the allotment and had affected badge badges. Badge don’t apperceive why he did it, but Gilot was still captivation the victim at gunpoint as they arrived. “We’re not absolutely sure. We don’t accept a absolute motive, a bright motive on what happened,” says Sgt. Wherry.
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The affair about impersonating an administrator is it’s not adamantine to do. It’s acknowledged for anyone to buy the badges or alike an emergency light. "Anybody can buy them," says Kevin Hergott of Fire Guard in Omaha. "The alone affair that's in the law is that you cannot be application them unless you accept a permit."
Fire Guard is a business that sells acclimated emergency lights. Hergott says he has a moral obligation to not advertise them to aloof anyone. "If we don't apperceive you, we alpha allurement some questions about who you're affiliated with and so forth. Do you accept a admittance and things like that."
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The victim of the abomination asked to abide anonymous. Badge say if you anytime accept suspicions that addition is impersonating an officer, alarm badge to verify the identity.
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