Brian Cashman held at gunpoint by Connecticut police

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Cashman was stopped at a Shell gas station in Darien when he was surrounded by police.

“Driver turn off your car and put your hands up! Put your hands out the window,” a Darien police officer is heard yelling on the video, which captures the cop with his gun pointed in Cashman’s direction.

The footage shows Cashman -- in a dark T-shirt, white shorts and flip-flops -- exiting his vehicle with his hands in the air. He subsequently makes his way, backwards, following command, toward the officers.

He explains that he reported the vehicle stolen earlier in the week and the NYPD recovered it and returned it to him.

Cashman is allowed to go back to his vehicle to retrieve his identification, at which point the officer tells him, “You look very familiar to me.”

“I’m the GM with the New York Yankees,” Cashman replies.

“Yeah, I know, I used to see you as Brook Street Bagels when I was an Eastchester cop,” the officer says, adding, “I apologize for the embarrassment.”

An apparent officer at the scene explained to Cashman that they were responding to an unrelated report of a man who brought a gun at a doctor's office and had reportedly left in a white, Jeep-like vehicle. Then they ran the plates on Cashman's Jeep and found that it had been reported stolen.

The Yankees' general manager said he reported the vehicle stolen earlier last week from nearby but the NYPD had recovered the vehicle in the Bronx and returned it to him.

It's not clear why his vehicle was not taken off the stolen list.

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