Nov. 19--Despite the badge she's worn hanging from her neck, the loaded handgun she's carried and the Chicago police logo embroidered on her hat, Lucretia Kibble is not a Chicago cop -- no matter how many times she has allegedly told people she is, Cook County prosecutors said today.
Kibble, 52, of the 990 block of South Crandon Avenue, was charged with impersonating a police officer while working as a security guard for a South Side restaurant, just like she was last year, authorities said. She also faces charges of illegally carrying a loaded 9-millimeter handgun.
Her bond was set at $50,000.
Kibble was arrested last week, after actual Chicago Police officers acting on a tip confronted her while she was working her real job at Kevin's Hamburger Heaven on the 500 block of W. Pershing Avenue.
Kibble had allegedly convinced the restaurant's manager that she was a police officer, telling him and at least one co-worker that she was "assigned to headquarters," prosecutors said.
In court, Kibble wore a navy blue windbreaker, a dark T-shirt and black slacks -- the outfit she had on when police approached her at the Hamburger Heaven.
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