Man Pretends To Be A Cop For A Month To Get Dates

Coconut Jakarta, who translated what Ari told Detik News into English, reported that he dated more than 10 women during this time.

He confessed that he promised to marry a lot of them, but it's hard to see these promises as anything but a ploy to convince them to sleep with him.

Not only was Ari claiming to be a cop, but the son of the regional police chief. And since he was already weaving a bold web of deception together, he also pretended to be a doctor of forensics.

Using this fake identity, Ari was able to charm his way into the hearts of students, civil servants, nurses, doctors, and even actual policewomen.

According to Coconuts Jakarta, he said he never conned them into giving him money, but he did manage to sleep with most of them.

Ari apparently had the outfit custom-tailored and the results cost the equivalent of $345.

Fortunately for him, he already had the money ready thanks to a friend who challenged him to try this stunt in the first place over a video streaming service called Bigo Live.

However, no matter how convincing his lies were, they weren't quite clever enough to save him from the actual police, who ended up arresting him at a hospital.

But how did they catch on to what he was doing?

According to Detik News, one of the women he dated couldn't help but notice that he never seemed to be at the station when he contacted her.

That may be explainable for somebody pretending to be a beat cop, but it's a lot more suspicious if they're also pretending to be a forensic scientist.

Surprise, surprise, nobody by that name worked there and the real police soon found out that Ari was going around impersonating an officer.

Also, remember how Ari said that he never extorted money from anybody while in uniform?

That's because they apparently received two reports that Ari had used his fake status to convince the alleged victims to withdraw money from an ATM for him.

Will the plot thicken?

h/t: Coconuts Jakarta