The Game Arrested for Impersonating a Police Officer

Rapper, The Game, was arrested in New York and charged with impersonating a cop, according to E! Online.

The Game, aka Jayceon Taylor, was arrested following an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, when he got into a cab and told the driver he was an undercover cop and told him to run the red-lights, E! Online reported. The Game allegedly flashed a fake badge as well.

The real New York cops stopped the cab and arrested The Game and issued him a desk appearance for impersonating a police officer.

Taylor's lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, called the allegations "ridiculous" and said it was the cops harassing his client.

"It's common knowledge, at least in the hip-hop community, that there's a hip-hop task force. Game's had the same six, eight, ten, twelve people following him since he got to New York," Lichtman tells E! Online. "They basically escorted him to the Letterman taping, and they were there when they got out. They were literally up his ass from when he was here."

Lichtman also said the police never recovered the alleged fake badge.

"They say that he flashed a badge, yet, where's the badge? They didn't find one and the poor guy has to sit in a holding cell while his Letterman appearance is playing on TV," said Lichtman, according to E! Online. "The whole thing's a complete joke to harass the guy. His case is going to be 100 percent dismissed, or it's going to be a very punishing trial for the D.A.'s office."