Woman was robbed Thursday by a man posing as a police officer after he conducted a ‘traffic stop’ on Mount Zion Road near Union, Ky.
At approximately 3:20 p.m. Rachel 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.
Ross drove home before notifying authorities.
Police said that is a highly traveled intersection, therefore investigators are asking anyone who drove through that area at about that time and could have witnessed any part of this incident – from the initial stop, to the man’s approach, to the car backing back out onto Mount Zion – to call Crime Stoppers at (513) 352-3040 or the Boone County Sheriff’s Department at (859) 334-2175 and provide information to aid in solving this robbery.
