Monday, October 15, 2007

Fake rangers take urine samples from boys

Authorities in Indianapolis have intensified the search for two men who forced six boys to give urine samples in a park.

The incident happened at Chapel Hill Park on the city's west side. "He came home crying and sweaty and said, 'Mom, I took a drug test,'" said one of the boys' mother, who did not want to be identified.

The impersonators took the boys one-by-one and demanded they submit to a drug test out in the open at the park.

"They opened up the police car, handed them a cup and had them use it in the cup," the mother said. "They made them sit down on a picnic bench afterwards and … told them, 'OK, go home.'"

Police said a woman who was also in the park at the time of the attack witnessed the boys with their pants down and questioned the activity.

Police said there have been 80 cases of officer impersonation in Indianapolis in the last five years, but this is the first involving urine samples.

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