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Police impersonators rob check cashing store

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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Armed robbers posing as cops held up a check chasing store in Queens. (WABC Photo / DCPI)

Armed robbers posing as cops held up a check cashing store in Queens.

Their disguises were very detailed, even down to their getaway car.

Cops say three men walked into the Pay-O-Matic on South Conduit in Rosedale Tuesday morning and told workers they were detectives and then stole cash.

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The suspects are described as three white men, all wearing dark blue jackets with an embroidered "NYPD" logo on the left chest, with police-type shields hanging around their necks.

Two of the suspects were wearing blue jeans; one was wearing tan khaki pants.

All wore sunglasses.

Two suspects also wore New York Yankees baseball caps.

The suspects then fled in a dark colored, late 1990s Ford Expedition with a broken rear passenger window that was covered by black plastic and secured with silver-colored duct tape.

The vehicle possibly had Virginia plates.

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