I don't know if you noticed, but this dude's got all the line stuff on like he wants to be a cop. I thought maybe you know he's not a cop. >> Hey Dennis, you mind hanging out the phone for me? Do me a favor. >> You've heard me say this before about road rage. If there's one piece of advice I can give you, don't do it. But if you do, definitely don't do it while you're impersonating a cop because if you do, you're going to get stopped. You're going to search your car and find all your cop toys and then it's a trip straight to jail. This is one of those. >> Okay. All right. I got a dash cam, too, if you if you ever want to pull that foot in. It's got it. >> You don't have any weapons in the car or nothing like that, right? >> I have a weapon on my right, but that's my concealed. >> Okay. You have it on you? >> Yes. >> Okay. All right. >> I I'm [laughter] making sure not to even reach for it. >> Okay. All right. Okay. >> You want me if you want, I can step out and you can start me if you want. >> Uh, okay. Yeah, that'd be perfect. Just don't reach for your gun. Okay. No, not >> you. Mind if I take it off of you? >> No. Go ahead. Okay. On the right hand side. I'm just going to sit it here for our safety. Okay. All right. >> And I want to sit back here. >> Yeah, if you don't mind. >> Removing a firearm from a person whose armed that you're investigating is common practice. However, it's incredibly dangerous. I have seen videos of officers removing someone's firearm and it going off, which is negligent discharge or an unintentional discharge in some cases because the officer is removing a firearm he's not familiar with. Who knows how this person loaded the thing? The one thing I will say is if you're going to remove it, secure it. >> You just hang out there for a minute. Okay. All right. Come here, D. >> Uh I don't know if you noticed, but this dude's got all the blue line stuff on. >> Mhm. >> Like he wants to be a cop. He's got radio in the car. >> Is he not? I thought maybe he was. >> No, he's not a cop. He's from California. And he's got a pistol on him. >> Mhm. >> I kind of want to check the car to see what kind of stuff he has. His foot. >> Do we know the history of what's going on? So supposedly he has no business getting involved in this car. Initially he acted like he had no idea what I was talking about >> and then he said that it was, you know, I asked him if there was like a road rage incident and he kind of played stupid initially and then he's like, "Oh, you're talking about this car." Well, I followed him all the way from 7:25 southbound on 75 from Austin. They were kind of going back and forth and he supposedly hit his lights on his SUV, you know, like >> dude, I mean, look at him. He's going >> Sure. Yeah. >> It's like odd. >> Yeah. No, definitely. >> So, I guess he he goes over to Walmart and the continues over like near the Walmart parking lot or whatever. I haven't got like a full story yet >> and then it all kind of like, you know, just goes away or whatever. The dude goes another way and he comes here, but he has no business coming down here. He lives in Middletown. He said he was going to Walmart and I said, "Well, did you go inside Walmart?" And he's like, "Well, no." His story just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. So, obviously it's not a crime to have a pistol, but I'm curious to see like what the lights look like on the car. And he said he's got a dash camera. The car is not used at all for work or anything like that. It's just a personal vehicle. >> Okay. >> So, it's very very shady. >> All right. >> Let's see. Uh >> see if he'll give you consent to check that gun, too. Make sure it's >> I know this is one of the smaller departments, but from what I'm seeing so far, and a lot of times people give small departments a hard time. I've seen some of the best policing from some of the smaller department guys. So far, this officer or deputy is doing a really good job as far as putting all the pieces together to see if this guy is impersonating. >> Just the one just the one weapon in the car. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Uh do you have a problem with me checking the car real quick? Make sure. >> All right. Appreciate it. >> Yeah. >> So, do you have these lights put on? >> Neither were I'm an old security officer from California. I lived out there with one of our utility vehicles. So, and I've just had it ever since and took them off. >> Okay. >> They're only they're they're red and amber. Take note of that thin blue line flag over there. >> No, they're not. >> Okay. >> Not red, blue. >> All right. >> 32. I'm clear. >> Dennis, do you mind? How do you kick these lights on? >> Oh, >> yeah. Yeah, you can show me. >> You want to you want to move that first? >> It's It's unloaded. >> Okay. So, the suspect says, "Do you want me to remove that first?" Because the firearm is sitting on the seat. The officer's response was, "It's unloaded." Best practice. Secure the firearm. Who knows if this person's going to change their mind about being a compliant person. The firearm's right in front of them. It only takes a second to reload a firearm. Even if another officer shows up, could it become something that becomes strange? We've seen stranger things happen. Secure the firearm. Best practice. 911 hanging ranch 421 north. >> So the lights I hit were just the rears. >> Okay. >> Do these lights up here work? >> Yes. But that just an arrow strip. >> Okay. >> So this is a really interesting thing. Every jurisdiction is slightly different. Most jurisdictions are the same. Most people cannot have on their personal legal red and blue light. Certain jurisdictions, it varies. So, a lot of times people will have the amber lights and that's okay. In my jurisdiction, when I first hired on and for several years while I was on the department, if a person had red or blue lights on, not only was it a crime, but we could remove them at the scene. So, this is good that the officer is going down this and getting every piece of the elements to see if he has what he needs to put this case together. Good stuff. >> Let me see this real quick. >> No, no lights on the front. No, actually, well, I've got an amber amber clear, but no red and blue. I can turn those on to you, too. Okay. >> In the parking lot, black Honda Civic last 73, >> white female, one black male with a child in the seat and back seat. We did >> and I never even had I never even turned the the front ones on. It was just the rear >> as I was pulling the other plane. Like I said, I've I've got it on dash cams, too. So >> So if you look on the spotlight handle, he has a set of handcuffs up here. Very common for officers to carry an extra set of cuffs up there. Interesting that he has those. Another little interesting thing here, if you look here on his keys on his car, I see two different handcuff keys. So unless he's security, we're still getting a lot of the elements here. >> Does your siren work? >> Uh yeah, you push just push the manual button. >> Yeah. It'll just it'll >> chirp. >> You know how odd this is, Dennis? >> If you want it. >> I mean, I've had this truck. I've lived in Ohio for 6 years now. Never had an issue with it. I see you guys all the time. >> Right. >> I'm not stupid enough to try to do your job. >> It's It's not that you're Dennis. The problem is this, okay? And it's not necessarily a problem, but you have to understand where we're coming from. Okay? All right. If I'm being fully transparent with you, all right? It's extremely odd that when I come up here and I ask you about the car, all right, you were delayed in your response. You're like, um, oh, you're talking about the minivan. Yes. The car that you have had issues with for the last two or three miles when you guys were going south on 75. >> No, that was because I wasn't >> listen for a second. All right. So, you were kind of delayed in that, which is no big deal. Okay. But then you're this whole situation goes all the way from north of Austin coming south and they're claiming that you're trying to ram them off the road and then I come up here and and I appreciate, you know, you loving police and stuff like that and them blue line stuff. I respect that. All right. But you have lights, you have a siren on the car, you have a pistol on you, you have spotlight, you have a handcuffs. What's the handcuffs for? >> Like I said, I used to work security. They just been hanging there ever since. Spotlight doesn't even work. >> Okay. >> I mean, >> I I totally understand it from your perspective. >> I like I said, it's on video. You can you will clearly see that I'm not ramming them or trying to get behind them at all. I'm trying to get as far away from them as possible and they started following me and that's why I pulled off. >> Okay. >> And I and then once they were ahead of me, I was like, whatever. I didn't want to deal with it. >> Okay. All right. >> I mean, I I totally understand and you know, you guys got to check it out and >> Yeah. do what you got to do. >> Well, that that's all we're going to do. Okay. Uh I'm going to take pictures of everything. All right. Um it just it it's not really sitting right with me. All right. Having a car that's that's an old law enforcement vehicle, you know, it is what it is. But the handcuffs, the gun, the siren, the lights, you know, all of that, that's what's strange to me. All right. >> Well, I mean, Ohio's concealed carry state, so I mean the gun should >> I never I never said it was just the pistol. I have no problem with the pistol. Okay. I have no problem with that. I you you guys got do your due diligence and check it out. I can I can >> we'll just have you come back here and you just sit right there on my uh my uh guard there on the front of my car. >> Can you contact Middletown PD and ask them if they are familiar with the subject break? It's going to be in reference to a Dennis had a white Tahoe with thin blue line stuff all over. He's got a light bar. Now they're amber lights, amber and red. There's no blue. He's got a pistol on him. He's got handcuffs on a spotlight. light bar, radio, um, siren, so on and so forth. Can you just contact them and see if they're familiar with this vehicle, if they've ever had any issues with him or at his address? It's, uh, definitely sketchy. >> This officer is really thorough. I like what I'm seeing. He's asking dispatch to do followup with another department to see if they've had any interactions with this subject doing this same type of thing. Now, there's a couple of little things I'd like to mention to you. He did this on the radio and I'm going to explain something to you about those kind of radio transmissions and I don't know how it is in this jurisdiction because there are scanners and a lot of times news channels or people will listen on scanners for things like that. This would be in a smaller town a type of newsworthy thing that possibly because a person's likely impersonating a police officer. However, there are channels that they can't pick up and he may have likely used one of those channels. So sometimes that is done over the phone. But it's interesting when you watch these things to see how they operate and again I'm sure he's doing this exactly by the book. Just things that when you watch some of these videos to think about, is this something that's being broadcast that can be picked up on a scanner? And I'm going to guess that he's doing this to protect the information cuz he's done everything great. >> Hey, Dennis, you mind hanging up the phone for me? >> Do me a favor. Call and get bail for me. >> I don't know if you caught that. He said, "Call and get bail for me." So, he's thinking that he's probably cooked. Just relax. Just give me I'll take a We'll just have a seat in my car real quick. Have you ever been arrested before or anything? >> Uh, years ago in California. >> For what? Um, wow. Time was uh during a concealed weapon unlock. >> Are these just pens and markers? You mind if I get all this stuff out? Okay. Okay. Here, we'll take you over here and I'll put it all in. >> Just so you know. >> Yep. >> Two knives back to pocket. >> Yep. Yep. >> Okay. >> You're good. >> Okay. So, this is an investigative thing that's interesting from an interview interrogation point of view. If you ask a person, have you ever been arrested for anything? Which was the question that was asked. The response was something about the last time in California and it was carrying concealed weapon, which would lead one to believe that this is along the lines of maybe an impersonating type thing. When they say the last time, but they don't mention the other arrest, it's almost going to always trigger the officer to say, "Well, okay, what were the other things you were arrested for?" That's a person a lot of times attempting to be evasive. Stand by this point. >> Stand by. one. All right, come on over. Watch me. >> 72. >> Cops will pick up what happened there, but a lot of if you're not a cop, you might not have picked up what happened. So dispatch called him to give him his return about the information about this guy. So he says stand by one cuz he doesn't want the guy to hear it over his packet. And then he goes into the car and turns the volume down I believe on the radio in the car. So when the return comes back on the information the suspect doesn't hear it said this guy is very very thorough. I really like seeing good police [music] work. Good stuff. >> Okay. Thank you. go ahead and uh call the complainant. Have them come up here to the fuel station, please. >> So that thin blue line thing on the flag that a lot of you see when those flags are around. So that thin blue line, it kind of denotes the police or the line between order and disorder. A lot of people have those on their vehicles to support police. Sometimes people have them or people who are impersonators would have those to lead a person to believe that they're likely affiliated with law enforcement cuz some police have them on their actual patrol vehicles. >> How's it going, man? >> What's up, boy? All right. So, all this happened obviously in Franklin, correct? >> No, Miami on the highway. Okay. All right. So, what where did it all start? >> I was getting So, I pulled out of like I worked at errands and I ran up there to pick something up. Okay. >> So, I went out to get on the highway and he about rear end us. I He was looking at me in the mirror and I went like that like, "Hey, back up, dude. You're too close." >> And then he tried to hit us two or three different times >> on the highway. He kicked all of his lights on, swerved over to get behind us again, and then followed us all the way here. >> So, these lights like what are on right now? >> Is there any blue? Did you see any blue? >> Was it orange? >> It was like red and green or like a yellowish color. >> You want to take a look and see if this is what you saw? >> Yeah, he had that one right there, but then he had the ones on the back one. >> Okay. So, he was almost trying to make a traffic stop on you. >> Yeah, pretty much. >> Okay. >> I wasn't going to stop cuz I know better. That's not no cop car, >> right? >> So, is it is he a cop? >> No. So, he shouldn't have any of this Uh, no. >> Looking at this vehicle, seeing the lights the way they are, please comment in the comment section. It's going to be very interesting. Would you pull over or this vehicle if it came behind you and they activated those lights? Please, in the comment section, tell me if you would and your location where you are. And here's a point. If a car like this gets behind you or if a car gets behind you and you suspect they're not really the police, it is 100% within your rights to call 911 and get on the phone with 911 on speaker and say, "Hey, this car that's following me has lights on. I suspect it might not be a police car." Dispatch should be able to track and tell you if that's a legitimate vehicle. And you don't have to hang up your phone until you know for sure that that's an officer. And check in your jurisdiction because they might have a protocol for this kind of stuff as well. But I would 100% tell any one of my children if there's a car behind you that's unmarked and you suspect it's not a police car, call 911. And a dispatcher is trained on how to walk you through that situation. >> You want to contact Miamiisburg. This all originated in Miami. >> Y >> um they were trying to this gentleman was trying to run him off the roadway. If you want to go ahead and have Miamiisburg officer come down here. >> Now you guys want to take it for that or >> it's going to be Miamiisburg. Um, I'm waiting on some stuff. >> What was he saying that it was all >> He initially acted like he had no idea what I was talking about and then once he realized >> all the was up. >> Yeah. So, >> um, >> yeah, because if he would have got followed me into Walmart, I was whooping his ass in the parking lot. That >> ain't okay. >> Did he say anything to you or >> No, I mean I tried to get away from him and he's like, "That van won't get out of its own way, man. It's a movie." >> Right. Right. >> Something interesting about this witness and his partner. Watch the way that they explain and tell their stories. Especially those of you who are new in law enforcement, entering law enforcement or entering a place where finding out if a person is telling you the truth. This is a very, very good case to see when a person is being deceptive or evasive or a person who's being completely forthright and honest. And these witnesses are great examples of people who are being forthright and honest. >> I was like I was just trying to get away from him. >> Okay. >> He literally followed me all the way here. >> Okay. Okay. All right. when he was like tailgating you trying to >> I mean like that close to killing locals. >> Is he like a security guard or anything? >> No. >> Good. Hang on one second. What's going on? >> He has several police officers out of California as well. Yep. >> That figures. I don't know if you picked it up on the radio, but she said he had several prizes for impersonating a police officer. >> I'll just wait for my officer to get here. I appreciate you. >> Yeah. So, basically, uh, he's going to be arrested for impersonating a police officer. >> Uh, he's got a pistol on him, so that's automatically a felony. So, that'll be the charges that we'll pick up on him for impersonating a police officer. He can't have a He got handcuffs, pistol. >> He's got the whole nine. Like, he is a cop and he's >> they and they really pray on women pull them over. >> Well, that's what's that's what's very scary. So like you have any type of record or anything? >> I can't I can't tell you all that. Yeah, but you'll find that out. You can talk to the prosecutor and stuff like that. And >> yeah, cuz I got kids in the car, man. If he would have pulled something and I had >> I'm glad you're okay, dude. Because >> face that way, man. >> Put your hands together for me like you're clapping. >> 42. >> You're under arrest, my man. >> Four. Well, you have multiple priors for impersonating a police officer. >> Okay. >> Uh you have a pistol on you that you're not allowed to have. >> Why not? >> You were trying to stop him by turning your lights on and and so on and so forth. >> I never attempted to stop him at all. >> You can't turn your lights on behind him with everything that you have going on in the car. >> You're not an emergency vehicle whatsoever. Okay. >> You have been down this road before. Okay. >> All right. >> In custody. Great investigative policing. I really enjoy watching this because there's so much that you can gather and learn just about the interactions, human interactions of people to people. And again, this officer is being so thorough. It really makes the case so much easier when the district attorney's office gets the paperwork. >> This dude is like impersonating big time. >> He's got a pistol on him, handcuffs, lights, sirens. >> Oh no. >> The whole shebang. But it all started in Miami. One other interesting point, I've dealt with these personating arrests before. When I first hired him, the first impersonating arrest that I saw done was done by a senior officer and he used the impersonator's handcuffs to handcuff them to make a point. Another interesting thing about utilizing handcuffs, and this is a more somber one, is if an officer loses his life in the line of duty, when the suspect is taken into custody, most jurisdictions will take the officer who lost their life in the line of duty and use their handcuffs to handcuff the suspect. Justice, come on out real quick. Just stand right here. Just facing me. And then just turn to your right, please. >> You can actually Yeah. Go the other way. >> There you go. Is it just a blue shirt underneath? >> Yeah. Okay. All right. Have a seat. >> This dude. Um, he's stupid, but I just ran a CCH and he's got several personating. He's not I don't think he's allowed to have the pistol either. 72 local on that CCH. Um, I know you had mentioned impersonating police officer and it sounds like he was charged for carrying weapons in California. Was he convicted of any felonies or was he convicted of a CCW charge or anything? One thing I'll make of note that's pretty important thing is here you see the witness looks like he's filling out a voluntary statement and the suspect is in the back of this patrol car that's right here. Best practice have them out of eyesot of each other. Sometimes you will get this person who's in custody attempt to intimidate the person or the person who was violated or victimized gets mad and starts saying things to the other person. Best to have them out of eye shot of each other, out of earshot of each other. Makes everything a lot easier and smoother. This dude's got freaking like traffic vests. I mean, he's got handcuffs, got pistol on him. Like, did you imagine if he pulled over your wife? What is your wife going to do? Maybe she's smart enough, but my wife isn't. I hope his wife doesn't see this video. >> He's got red and blue lights right here. >> No. Not this. >> No, not this much. >> This is like uh what you read about on a Netflix series. >> Yeah. >> And this is like um like you know how them girls play like dress up and stuff. >> This guy is so thorough. He's even making sure they're operable inside the suspect vehicle. This is going to make the case airtight. Really good stuff. >> This is that. >> Yeah. This is like to that extent >> typically of cremation >> that brown liquid. >> And yes, I noticed that the female lobster has a bun. Good stuff. >> I'm surprised this guy hasn't been stopped. So, here we see the impersonating a police officer charge, which is incredibly serious. It's a felony in nearly every jurisdiction that I know, and I've made those arrests before, and a lot of times it's people who just wanted to be cops. If you look at their background, a lot of them have tested to be cops and they just couldn't become cops and they just fetishize about being a police officer. The other people are people who have nefarious reasons why they do that and those are the ones that we definitely want to go after and get. And I'm so happy that there are officers who are this diligent doing this because we need to be protected from people doing it. Takes a lot to earn the title of being a police officer and no one should steal that title. I'd like to shout out someone who's not necessarily wearing a police officer badge because there are security officers who are many times first responders. Some of them wanted to be police officers and couldn't or they just wanted to be security. It's a noble profession and I know a lot of you watch this channel and I want to say thank you because you keep us safe as well. Continue to be professional. Do your thing. 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