FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Police are looking for a thief who posed as a firefighter in order to steal nearly $500 from a Fort Worth hotel.
Authorities say the man walked into the hotel on Wednesday and asked to inspect the building’s fire alarms.
Police say the man claimed to have been a Fort Worth firefighter for 17 years and was now a fire systems inspector.
After resetting some systems, the man asked the hotel manager to go to another part of the building to set off the fire alarm.
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Police say when the manager returned, the man indicated he had to go to his car for some tools but he actually fled in a dark Ford Mustang.
Investigators say the hotel manager then discovered that the man had stolen $460 from the register.