Hey there, Camillion fans. It's Josh Dean, your host here with a little message letting you know that we're taking this week off to celebrate America's 250th birthday over July 4th weekend. Actually, everybody needs a break now and again. And we will be back next week as ever with a regularly scheduled new episode about a story that you will love.

But in the meantime, I wanted to play one of my favorites from early in the season.

So those of you who have been with us from the beginning will recall this.

Maybe some of you who are

newer to the feed and haven't made it back to the beginning, haven't heard it yet. This is the

story of an incredible guy kid at the time from Chicago who was so obsessed with being a police

officer that he just couldn't wait to grow up in B1. So he pretended instead.

It's the kid who couldn't stop playing cop,

and we'll see you next week with a new episode of Chameleon.

Have a great weekend, everybody.

I really appreciate you listening to us.

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On January 24th, 2009, a relatively short, stocky, clean-shaven blackmail named Vincent Richardson,

walked into the Grand Crossing Police Precinct on Chicago's South Side and reported for duty.

This was one of Chicago's most bustling stations, situated at the crossroads of three large

and fairly active neighborhoods. He told the frazzled duty officer he'd been detailed from another district and was given both a

police radio and a ticket book.

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