Man arrested for imperonating Police after stopping motorist

A man was charged with impersonating a police officer after real cops saw him stop a motorist, then played along with the man's ruse until back-up could arrive.
Judge James Brown set bail for Thomas Considine at $250,000 today during a bond hearing. Considine, of the 3900 block of West 66th Place, was charged with armed robbery and false personation of a peace officer.
“You CPD?" Considine, 20, asked the officers as he sat in a white Buick Lucerne fitted with blue and red flashing lights in the windshield around 3 a.m. Thursday in the West Lawn neighborhood,.
He was parked behind a car he had just stopped in the 5800 block of South Lawndale Ave.
"I’m with the sheriff’s department CIU – we’re good, thanks,’’ Considine said. He was wearing a black vest, a gunbelt with handcuffs, and he had an expandable baton and a police badge. He also had what appeared to be a pistol tucked in his waistband.
But when the officers ran the plate of his car, they found it registered to his home address, not to the sheriff's department.
While waiting for back-up, the officers kept up the ruse and ordered the man stopped by Considine to get out of the car and place his hands on the roof.
When other beat cars arrived, officers placed the man into handcuffs and escorted him away from Considine.
Then an officer asked Considine for his ID and removed “a black semiautomatic-looking BB gun’’ from Considine’s waistband and placed him into custody,