Dwight Adams

dwight.adams@indystar.com

Indianapolis police are searching for a man they say impersonated a police officer while robbing two women early Saturday morning in Broad Ripple.

The victims told police they were walking south on Carrollton Avenue on the east side of the street shortly after 3 a.m., when a small, dark-colored car pulled up next to them and then blocked their path on the sidewalk in the 6100 block.

According to the police report, a man then jumped out of the car and shouted: "Police! You're getting arrested, get on the ground!"

One of the victims said the man kept his left hand concealed in his jacket pocket, so that she believed him to be pointing a firearm at her.

One woman walking slightly ahead of the other then got down on the ground and handed over $10. When the other woman tried to intervene, the thief snatched her black Aeropostale purse from around her neck, "almost pulling her into his vehicle in the process," the report said, before getting back in his car and fleeing westbound on 62nd Street.

Both women declined medical treatment, police said.

The suspect is described as being of a large build, about 6 feet 2 inches tall, and wearing dark-colored work pants or jeans, a tan Carhartt jacket and a dark-colored beanie-style cap.

Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call CrimeStoppers at (317) 262-TIPS.

Call Star web producer Dwight Adams at (317) 444-6532. Follow him on Twitter: @hdwightadams.