New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman stopped at gunpoint by police

A case of mistake identity has led to a harrowing moment for the New York Yankees’ GM after he was stopped by gun-toting police.

New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman’s harrowing run-in with gun-toting Connecticut cops — in which they demand he put his hands up before recognising him — was captured on newly released police bodycam video.

“Put your hands out the window!” yells an officer from the town of Darien, who stopped the Yankees executive’s car last Friday and drew their weapons, thinking it had been stolen.

Cashman, 52, is heard on the recording trying to explain that the NYPD had recovered the white Jeep Wrangler in the Bronx — and he was driving it to police in Norwalk for an evidence check.

“I picked it up…,” Cashman starts to say.

But he is quickly cut off by the cops, who say: “Understood sir, we’ll talk to you in a second.”

“I know but it was taken off by the NYPD a few days ago,” the GM says, apparently referring to the list of stolen cars.

“And we all know how they are, all right?” the cop responds.

Things quickly warmed up, however, when one of the officers recognises him.

“You look very familiar to me,” he says.

“I’m the GM of the New York Yankees,” Cashman explains.

“Yeah, I know,” the cop answers. “I used to see you at Brook Street Bagels when I was an Eastchester cop. I apologise for the embarrassment.”

“Clear it,” the cop then tells the other officers. “Clear it, turn all the lights off and we’re good.”

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Cashman said at the time that the NYPD never took him off the stolen car list, and it didn’t help that Connecticut police had already gotten a call about someone in a white Jeep brandishing a gun at a local doctor’s office.

Cashman, who lives in the village of Rowayton in Norwalk, said the car was stolen the week before but found dumped in the Bronx four days later by the NYPD.

He arranged to drive the Jeep to Norwalk police headquarters on Friday so they could “process it” for any evidence of the theft.

Cashman didn’t have an enjoyable drive.

After the incident, he told The Post that he had no hard feelings toward the officers.

“I had a welcoming committee descend up on me as I pulled out of the gas station,” Cashman said. “They executed a very tactful interception.”

Cashman said the dramatic ordeal took roughly 15 minutes before he was back in his car being escorted by Darien police to the Norwalk Police Department.

A law enforcement source told The Post that the NYPD should have contacted cops in Darien and alerted them that the car was found in order for the alarm to be removed.

This article originally appeared on the NY Post and was reproduced with permission.