Cop impersonator sentenced again, for impersonating attorney

A man previously sentenced to deferred adjudication probation for impersonating a San Antonio police officer was sentenced Friday on separate charges related to his impersonating a lawyer.

Ian Flemming Cone, 20, was sentenced by state District Judge Melisa Skinner to 10 years deferred adjudication probation for the third-degree felony of impersonating an attorney, and to five years probation for the related felony charge of stealing $10,000 from the victims who signed on to be his clients.

According to court files, Cone first met his victims in July 2012 while they were in court watching their son’s trial. Cone introduced himself to the family as a law student.

The victims’ son eventually was convicted but won an appeal. They told police they happened to run into Cone again in May 2014 outside the Bexar County Jail and told him they were looking for an attorney to represent their son on appeal.

Cone told them he had graduated law school and was working in a local firm, court documents state. He provided the family with a bar card number belonging to Ian Fried, an attorney in Carrollton, and told them he’d need a $10,000 check to get started.

Soon after he received the check, the victims told police Cone ceased communications with them.

As part of his sentencing Friday, he was ordered to pay $10,000 restitution to the victims.

In June 2012 Cone, then 17, was arrested in HemisFair Plaza — with a BB gun in a holster on his hip and a fake SAPD badge in his wallet — after he demanded a VIA bus driver let him ride for free because he was a cop. He was sentenced to three years deferred adjudication probation for that charge.

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