Fake Ass Police Officer

So a few weeks ago I met this guy, when I was out with other cops, who claimed that he was a police officer. He fooled me and he fooled them. According to him, he worked midnights at one of the other precincts. He had been a police officer for about five years and was 25 going on 26. All of this fit logically.

He knew all about their policies, procedures, and infrastructure. He was just a good fraud. Such a good fraud that even law enforcement did not catch it until later on. Looking on back on things though, there were some minor red flags. Nothing though that would warrant looking twice. These things including scheduling and having a partner in the car (this doesn't tend to happen).

The kicker in all of this was that this fool claimed to know a deceased police detective. He seriously called me one night, crying, talking about how he was upset because it has been a year. He told me about the night the detective died how they all sat around the precinct and cried. He also talked about how he was there when his wife came to clean out his belongings from his desk area. I mean why would someone lie about that? I actually believed it.

There was another component to this, however. He apparently wanted a relationship with me as well. The phone calls started, the daily emailing, the sending me 1000 different text messages. He told me about his alleged girlfriend, a manager at 7-11 (whom he met during a petty theft call), and how she wouldn't break up with him. He was trying hard but I didn't bite. I just kept telling him we could be friends.

Well the end came yesterday. He was arrested for impersonating a law enforcement officer. I got a phone call that I needed to go down to the police precinct to tell what happened with me. It was kind of surreal. I just told them he told me he was a cop and the situation with the police detective. He was so good he even fooled some of the members of the police department.

Apparently the guy got found out because he had some 19 year old he was screwing/dating and dropped her once he tried to pick it up with me. She got suspicious and found him out. Good for her :)!

WOW. Random weekend. I still have my police officer and a misdemeanor docket this morning. Take care everyone :)!