Joseph Clancy impersonates a police officer to extort Michael Zoureff

While the deponent [Zoureff] was walking down West 118th Street, between Lenox and Fifth, he was approached by the defendant [Clancy], who

While the deponent [Zoureff] was walking down West 118th Street, between Lenox and Fifth, he was approached by the defendant [Clancy], who “under the pretence that he was a police officer, took hold of deponent and told him he was under arrest.” The defendant then walked him to the corner of West 126th Street and Lenox Avenue, where he “accepted the sum of $5 from deponent, released deponent, and then… ran away.”