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4-B The Tampa Tribune, Friday, September 22, Retired priest, woman latest to be victimized by bogus police 4 4 When he came up to me he said, 'Hey, He was very careless. I've been pulled over before. Policemen don't do that. He never even asked me for my driver's license. 99 Robert Castellano area before stopping if they are approached by a car with flashing lights.

i Motorists should pull over only if the flashing lights are blue. The lights may be alternately blue and red, but the most significant color jo look for is blue, said Capt Richard Cipriano. Unmarked police cars us only blue lights. 1 In another incident Tuesday afternoon, a couple posing as police officers bilked an elderly north Tampa woman out of her life sayings of $750. The fake officers told the woman they were investigating an embezzlement scheme at Barneft Bank.

On Aug. 30, a man with a gold badge in a black case knocked oji doors in northern Hillsborough County asking questions about -a rape suspect. The impostor, a black man. in his mid-20s with shoulder-length hair, showed residents in the area of Skipper Road and 42nd Streetja picture of a white man he said was a rape suspect. realize the heat is on.

"They are smart enough to know that they are running on a lucky streak and" sooner or later they are going to get caught" said sheriffs Capt. Robert DeLuna. Those bandits, using a flashing red light to pull over cars, robbed 10 motorists during the early morning hours Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Four victims were shot at, and two others reported being struck on the head with a revolver or shotgun. No robberies involving the black duo were reported Wednesday night or Thursday morning.

"The publicity (about the robberies) had a lot to do with that," DeLuna said. "They also probably heard police talking back and forth about it on the radio." "We're not going to relax just because we didn't have any (more) robberies," sheriffs Capt Gary Terry said. Deputies have advised motorists to drive to a well-lighted, populated 11:45 p.m. as he was driving north on Interstate 275 near Bearss Avenue. Castellano's Airedale terrier, Arrington, was in the seat beside him.

When the impostor grabbed for a silver cross hanging from a chain around Castellano's neck, Arrington attacked, biting the bogus officer on the left hand. "I always go about 5 miles under (the speed limit)," said Castellano, a retired Eastern Rite Catholic priest who is confined to a wheelchair. "All of a sudden the red light goes on, and I thought, 'What have I done "I started noticing how sloppy the man looked as soon as he got out of the car," he said. The man walked briskly to the car and leaned on the door, but before he could touch Castellano, the 212-year-old, 65-pound terrier bit his hand. Terrified, Castellano drove off, while the bogus officer ran back to his car.

Castellano said he was suspicious of the man because he carried a gun in an old-style cavalry holster that has to be unbuttoned before the pistol can be taken out. "When he came up to me he said, 'Hey, He was very careless. I've been pulled over before. Policemen don't do that He never even asked me for my driver's license," Castellano said. The man is white, with a round face, a mustache and light brown hair.

He weighs about 225 pounds and may be about 5-foot-9 to 6-foot-1, Castellano said, adding that the suspect was wearing a uniform with a light brown shirt over dark brown pants. The two incidents were the latest in a series of episodes of harassment by fictitious police officers. Two bogus-police robbers who terrorized eastern Hillsborough County motorists for three days did not reappear overnight Wednesday a sign, authorities said, that they When she opened her purse to get her driver's license and insurance identification card, the man snatched the purse, jumped into his car and drove off. The suspect is white, in his mid-408 and about 5-foot-ll. He weighs about 220 pounds, has a pot belly and was wearing a white short-sleeve shirt and a tie.

White said he didn't know if the robber was the same man who was bitten by a pet dog in an abortive robbery attempt late Wednesday. That phony cop, using a red light atop his late-model white Plymouth, stopped Robert Castellano, 49, about try zmofmrt ami annraru NURSERY CRAFTS Introducing Franks New "Florida Pacs" with ENTIRE 1 1 African Violets In bud bloom Vegetable and Flower Annuals NURSERY STOCK Top quality, 1 grade plants to spruce up your landscape. Dozens of the most wanted varieties: shrubs, trees, evergreens and more, many grown in Florida. Included are Azaleas, Viburnums, Boxwood, Ixoras, Jasmines, Bird of Paradise, Nandina, Camellias and many, many more. In 4" Pots.

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