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TexasTowelie

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Tue Apr 18, 2017, 02:56 AM Apr 2017

Florida man allegedly impersonates officer, pulls over real policeman

MIAMI -- A Florida man was in jail Friday night after he allegedly impersonated a police officer and ended up pulling over a Miami-Dade police officer.

The Miami Herald
reported that while Marcos Pacheco-Bustamante was driving a dark green 2000 Crown Victoria, he placed a blue police siren on its roof and signaled for a vehicle in front of him to pull over.

The driver in the vehicle was Miami-Dade police Officer Alton Martin, who, according to the arrest affidavit, was in full uniform in an unmarked vehicle.

“One of the Miami-Dade police detectives working the overnight, an off-duty, in full uniform, he was driving his unmarked vehicle heading northbound on I-95 when all of a sudden a green Crown Victoria gets behind him,” Detective Jennifer Capote told WSVN.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/crime--law/florida-man-allegedly-impersonates-officer-pulls-over-real-policeman/PzEPjWawtMUtsemSbBePGK/

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