CHARLOTTE, N.C.--Teenagers robbed while they waited to pick their mom up for work. The suspect? A man posing as a police officer. The manager of the West End Seafood Market says her employees were just closing up for the night when one of those employees' two sons and one of their girlfriends sitting in their car were approached by two men and a woman.

The teens told police the men shined flashlights in the car and then one of the men showed them a badge hanging around his neck and asked for identification. When one of the teens pulled out his wallet to show his ID he says the man pointed a gun at him, grabbed the wallet and left. The manager of the seafood market says it's an especially infuriating crime. “It's esp. angering because people are trying to trust ofiicers.. and to have someone impersonating when it's hard enough already... people trying to impersonate police officers.. and  taking advantage in the community," says Bernetta Powell.

The same thing happened on Wisteria Drive, just off South Boulevard. Six men in an apartment told police two men dressed like police with a badge pulled a gun on them and stole one of the men's wallets. Police tell us they believe the two crimes are related. The Seafood Market manager says it was a badge with wings, like a state troopers badge. What she says is even more astounding, there's a police substation right across the street.