LONGMONT, Colorado — Police are looking for a man who told clerks at a local adult novelty shop that he is a police detective and then demanded that they provide him with pornographic videos so he could check the ages of the actors and actresses in them.

The clerks turned away the ponytailed police impersonator last month, said Longmont Cmdr. Tim Lewis.

Lewis said the man provided a badge and a business card without a name, and told the clerks he was a detective with the Longmont Police Department’s “age verification unit,” which does not exist. The man claimed he would verify the ages of the performers in the videos, Lewis said.

The man made the claims to clerks on July 18, July 19 and July 26. The manager of the business on the 1400 block of Main Street called police on July 28, according to police reports.

The man is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall, 155 pounds, in his mid-30s, with long black hair and glasses. He was wearing a leather brace or wrap on his left wrist, according to police. Store officials provided video images of the man.

The man may drive a red Dodge Neon.