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Police: Officer impostor confronts real detective

PUEBLO, Colo.

Authorities in Colorado say a police impersonator picked the wrong man when he approached an undercover detective and demanded he hand over drugs as part of a police drug bust.

According to the Pueblo Chieftain, the undercover detective was in a cellphone store speaking to a clerk when a man came in demanding to know why the detective had so many phones and accused him of being a drug dealer Monday. He demanded the detective “give him the drugs,” according to the paper.

The detective then turned the tables on the impersonator. He showed the man his own law-enforcement credentials and advised the man he was under arrest for suspicion of impersonation of a peace officer.

Authorities say Roland Herrera was taken to jail.

Pittsburgh-area kindergarten class has 10 sets of twins

ALLISON PARK, Pa.

A Pittsburgh-area elementary school has a novel way to acclimate its kindergartners to the school experience, but it’s not a technique that can be easily shared with other schools.

Burchfield Elementary School’s brand-new kindergarten class has 10 sets of twins. That means 20 out of 100 pupils in the affluent suburban school’s kindergarten program started the year with at least one close friend.

Principal Jeff Rojik said that kindergartners are often nervous about starting school but that the twins are helping with that transition.

“You often have times where you have kids who are nervous about coming to school, who are anxious and have a lot of apprehension,” Rojik told KDKA-TV. “But so far, with 20 twins in a set of 100 students, it’s a nice transition. They have a brother or a sister to help them get through the tough times.”

Sally Engel agrees that it’s nice to have her brother, Cy, in the same class.

“Whenever you want someone to play with and you don’t have anybody else, you’ve got somebody in your family — you have a twin,” Sally said.

Cops: W. Pa. man barked at K-9 at DUI checkpoint

CRANBERRY, Pa.

A western Pennsylvania man has been charged with inciting Chaos.

That’s the name of a police dog officers say was taunted by 26-year-old James Paul Andrews of Cranberry Township after the man was stopped at a drunken-driving checkpoint about 2:40 a.m. Sept. 15.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for Andrews, who reportedly was “barking, hissing and growling” at the dog, according to the K-9’s handler, Evan City police Sgt. Don Myers. The Butler Eagle reports Cranberry Township police filed the charge Monday — which is a felony carrying up to seven years in prison — along with drunken driving and other charges.

Associated Press