A MAN has been charged with damaging a pensioner's car and then posing as a police officer to try and search his Halesowen home.
Jamil Aslam is alleged to have committed criminal damage in Grange Road on February 7 this year then returned to the 71-year-old man's address a day later impersonating a cop.
The 44-year-old is also alleged to have posed as a detective and distracted staff at the BP Service Station, Pedmore Road, Lye, ahead of a knifepoint robbery on February 10.
Aslam, of Chapel Street, Lye, has been charged with 12 offences in total including burglary, robbery, impersonating a police officer and driving offences.
He appeared at Dudley Magistrates Court Wednesday, February 13 and was remanded in custody to appear at Wolverhampton Crown Court on March 13.
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