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   From: kamala.harris.encourages@black.crime   
      
   A Memphis, Tennessee, woman has been accused of impersonating a police officer   
   in an attempt to extort an 84-year-old man on a nonexistent rape charge.   
      
   The man told Memphis police he was told to meet Watkins at a restaurant on   
   Germantown Parkway, where she told him she would place him in handcuffs if he   
   didn't pay thousands of dollars in fines to have the rape charge dropped.   
      
   According to court records, Watkins drove the man to a bank where he withdrew   
   $8,000, and then another bank where he attempted to withdraw another $10,000.   
   At the second attempt, the bank contacted the victim's son and the account was   
   frozen. Police say    
   Watkins drove off with the $8,000.   
      
   Watkins, 32, faces a list of charges including robbery, theft, criminal   
   impersonation, illegal use of a credit card, financial exploitation of   
   vulnerable adults and false imprisonment for crimes for crimes she allegedly   
   committed in February.   
      
   https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/1793882/impersonating-police-offi   
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   A photo of Nicole Watkins, who is accused of impersonating a police officer in   
   an extortion plot. Memphis Police Department   
      
   In another case, Watkins was accused of extorting a different man, saying he   
   owed debt to a mutual friend.   
      
   The second man told police he was waiting to pick up a food delivery at the   
   McDonald's restaurant on South Third Street when a woman called him and told   
   him she was an undercover officer, according to an affidavit of complaint. He   
   said he was told to    
   exit the vehicle or he would be handcuffed and taken to jail. He was told he   
   could not escape because he was surrounded by police.   
      
   Court records state that the man was then instructed to get into a black van   
   in the parking lot of the McDonald's, where he met a woman named Nicole. She   
   allegedly told the man to withdraw $900 in cash to give to her, along with   
   everything in his pockets,   
    which included his mother's debit card. Watkins allegedly forced him to   
   provide the pin number for the bank card. The man told investigators he   
   complied out of fear of going to jail.   
      
   Court documents show that Watkins fraudulently used the debit card belonging   
   to the man's mother, who suffered a $1,000 loss as a result. The man later   
   identified Watkins as the suspect in a photo lineup.   
      
   Once Watkins was arrested, police say she had to be hospitalized for previous   
   medical conditions but that she managed to escape from custody at Methodist   
   Hospital. She is now facing a charge for that incident as well.   
      
   Watkins posted bond on April 30. Jail records show her next court date is May   
   28.   
      
   https://www.newsweek.com/woman-accused-impersonating-officer-att   
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