Parkin told police that because he held onto his dying mother when she took her final breath, “I am my mother.”

For six years Parkin used a cane, heavy makeup, dark glasses and fake ID at various agencies in order to pull off the scam, police said.

The ruse unraveled during a dispute over his mother’s $2.2 million brownstone. Investigators played along as Parkin showed up for the interview “wearing a red cardigan, lipstick, manicured nails and breathing through an oxygen tank.”

Tailgate crime wave

A Washington state man is accused of ramming into unsuspecting drivers for the thrill of it.

Gil Contreras, 45, claims to be a part of the “Bump and Go Posse,” police said. He’s accused of smashing into the back of at least five occupied vehicles including a police car in Olympia.

Tamarra Paradee was driving when her car was struck and pushed down the road for hundreds of feet.

“I had my foot on the brakes and I was thinking to myself why isn’t he stopping?” Paradee said.

He tried to hold Burger King for a royal ransom?

Police in Utah are looking for a man who robbed a business that he thought was a diamond company.The Polynesian man with a full-sleeve tattoo pulled out an ice pick, and demanded diamonds, precious metals and money from the manager. Black Diamond Equipment actually makes skiing equipment.

Does Muncie need a canine unit?

Henry Stahl from Muncie, Ind., has been charged for the second time in seven months with stealing his victims’ false teeth right out of their mouths.

Stahl — a tavern owner and onetime candidate for sheriff — allegedly tried to yank the choppers from a man sitting on a motorcycle. Stahl grabbed the man’s head and jammed his thumb into the cyclist’s mouth, police say. Stahl allegedly pulled out a partial dental plate and broke three natural teeth.

The other time, Stahl was fighting in an alley. After putting a man in a headlock, police said, he pulled out the man’s dentures and walked away saying, “You ain’t getting these back.”

A trillion here, a trillion there …

A Miami man was charged with trying to trick the federal government into paying him more than $14 trillion. Marlon “X-Large” Moore, who spent six years in prison for a money laundering scheme, apparently used the downtime to concoct his “brilliant” scheme, the Miami New Times reports. He’s also accused of preparing and submitting numerous false tax returns claiming a relatively paltry $10 million in refunds. Federal officials were not amused.

Wrong turn

A Utah man who was pulled over for failing to use his blinker was arrested after confessing he was having sex with a 14-year-old girl.

The officer noticed three girls in the vehicle and asked the driver, 23, why he was with them. He said he had a sexual relationship with one of the girls, whom he thought was 16, and had sex with her four days before, the statement said.

The man also said he had sexual pictures of the girl on his cell phone, which police verified.