Some people impersonate cops to stop cars on the highway, arrest people, or simply get a discount on coffee and donut. But a resident of the city of Lehigh (Utah), Daniel Wright, wearing a police uniform, went even further: he went to a 7-Eleven cafe and simply stole a toasted donut.
An employee of the cafe, suspecting that the policeman was not real, called the police and said that the suspicious person, leaving the cafe, had taken a “baked product” with him. Based on the employee’s description of the white pickup in which the thief drove away (the car was later revealed to have been stolen), the police found the pickup parked outside a local motel.
Entering the room, the police found a police uniform hanging in the closet. Wright and his friend Christine Rose, who was in the room, were arrested and charged with possession of a stolen car, and Wright additionally – with impersonating a police officer and “stealing a donut.”
True, the donut was never found. But the investigation continues …
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Donut