Jun 23 (Japan Today) - Police in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, have arrested a 17-year-old youth for impersonating a police office by using a fake badge and ID in order to obtain the phone number and address of a woman.
According to police, the incident occurred in mid-March. The woman, 18, works in a bar. Fuji TV reported that the youth, wearing a suit, came into the bar with a police badge and an ID with his own photo on it, identifying him as being 27 years old and head of the police department's Community Safety Division.
He said he wanted the contact info of the woman. However, when the woman became suspicious, he left the bar.
