By Rummana Hussain
The Chicago Sun-Times
In yet another episode, a teenage boy who embarrassed the Chicago Police Department by impersonating an officer has allegedly threatened to beat up a sheriff’s officer so he could escape from custody.
The 15-year-old has pleaded guilty to impersonating a Chicago Police officer and swiping a used Lexus from a South Side dealership after convincing the owner he was an adult with a job.
The boy, who was in Cook County Juvenile Court on Friday, will be sentenced June 26 by Judge Andrew Berman.
But before the hearing, a sheriff’s officer told Assistant State’s Attorney Jennifer Rutkowski the boy had threatened to escape.
No one was hurt, and the boy went back into custody.
In January, the boy, then 14, made national headlines when he walked into the Grand Crossing District station dressed in a police uniform and announced he was assigned to traffic patrol there. He signed out a police radio and joined another officer in a patrol car for five hours, police and prosecutors said.
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