A Levittown man is accused of pretending to be a police officer.
A 22-year-old man was charged via mail summons earlier this week with impersonating a public servant.
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Falls Township police say they were called to the PECO substation along Falls-Tullytown Road on February 24 around 10:40 p.m. for a report of a suspicious vehicle.
Officer Stephanie Metterle pulled up and spotted two vehicles, one a Dodge with a spotlight shined on the car in front. She also saw a man wearing a bulletproof vest standing at the driver-side window of the other car.
“How are you doing?” the man in the bulletproof vest asked. “You have an SUV now?”
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“Yes, we change vehicles all the time,” the officer responded.
“You don’t remember me?” the man in the vest reportedly said.
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The 22-year-old man told police the man in the other vehicle seemed “shady” and couldn’t produce identification, authorities said.
Metterle approached the other vehicle that the 22-year-old man was talking about and found a man shuffling through items and “frantically looking through his vehicle.”
He told the officer he was a roaming AT&T employee assigned to the substation for work duties. He added that he was already looking for his identification for the other officer, referring to the 22-year-old man, according to court papers.
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The AT&T employee eventually was able to produce proper documents and a work order. He also assured Metterle that he did not have any weapons with him. He told the officer that “the other guy” thought the AT&T employee may have been armed, court papers state.
The 22-year-old man was asked to leave the scene by another officer who arrived on the scene.
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Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.
