A rabbi from White Plains, New York was arrested Thursday for his third charge of second-degree criminal impersonation. Thursday was the third time he had impersonated a cop on the road.
Alfredo Borodowski, a 49-year-old rabbi of Congregation Sulam Yaakov, pled not guilty Monday to second-degree criminal impersonation, before his third offense.
NBC reports that Borodowski chased down a 26-year-old man on Interstate 87 near Yonkers, New York last spring for cutting in front of his car. The passenger in the car captured a video on his cell phone of Borodowski flashing a fake badge as he drove by.
Last month, he was arrested again for pulling up next to a 24-year-old woman in Mamaroneck, again flashing the fake badge, and ordering her to pull over for driving slowly in a school zone. A similar incident happened when he flashed the badge at driver Peter Moses and screamed for him to stop.
Right after the last incident happened on Wednesday night, he turned himself in to the White Plains police. That same day, he was released earlier in the afternoon from a local psychiatric hospital where he had been checked in for bipolar disorder.
“People are afraid and unsure whether people are real police officers. We can’t have this happening,” said White Plains Police Commissioner David Chong, according to Lohud.
Borodowski faces up to one year in jail for each of his misdemeanor charges.