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Preposterous Imposters (Identity Thieves; Fraudsters; Etc.)

I'm gonna file this under imposters because the son living with his parents was living an elaborate lie. He told his parents he was working toward - and had secured - a good job and was set to launch off on a great career. In fact, he was lolling about playing computer games. When his parents discovered the deceptions, he allegedly killed them, dismembered them, and scattered their remains around southern Wisconsin.
Man Allegedly Fabricated SpaceX Job Offer Then Dismembered Parents When They Discovered His ‘Web of Lies’

Like many Americans his age, 23-year-old Chandler Halderson spent the past year or so living at home with his parents. His father, Bart Halderson, and his mother, Krista Halderson, believed he was working remotely for a Wisconsin insurance company while finishing up his community college coursework from his room, according to authorities. His life appeared poised to head in a more promising direction, especially after Halderson announced in June 2021 that he’d been hired by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and would be moving to Florida later that month. His girlfriend planned to go with him. He told her he’d already rented an apartment and bought a car.

The problem, authorities say, is none of it was true. According to prosecutors, Halderson was hanging out in his room playing video games all day, waking up early for meetings that didn’t exist so that his accountant father — who was also working remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic — would not suspect the ruse. Then, when Bart discovered the truth about his son’s fake life, prosecutors say Halderson shot him to death, and killed his mother when she arrived home a few hours later. He then dismembered their bodies, scattered their remains around Southern Wisconsin, and reported them missing almost a week later. Halderson is now on trial in Dane County for his parents’ murders, as well as charges of mutilating a corpse, hiding a corpse, and providing false information about a missing person. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/fake-spacex-job-murder-dismemberment-lies-1278750/
 
An 18-year-old fellow impersonating a newly-hired corrections officer was detained and charged after being unmasked during a visit to a Miami high school.
Corrections officer impersonator arrested at Miami school

An 18-year-old is accused of impersonating a corrections officer while talking to staff members at a Miami high school. ...

He was wearing a Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Department jacket and traffic vest, and had a Florida corrections badge with a photo that police said did not look like him, the report said,

The young man told officers that he’d just been hired by the corrections department and that he would be attending the academy soon ...

Police said he had a handcuff case attached to his belt, along with a pouch on his hip in the shape of a firearm.

Officers detained him and patted him down. They found a pair of handcuffs, a thermometer shaped like a firearm, a pocket knife and two credit cards that did not belong to him. ...

He was arrested for impersonating an officer, trespassing on school property with a firearm, unlawfully possessing a stolen credit or debit card, burglary, and unlawful use of a police badge. ...
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FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/article/florida-miami-arrests-473de89d62b4375ea078d5f030a97a11
 
EnolaGaia said:
An 18-year-old fellow impersonating a newly-hired corrections officer was detained and charged after being unmasked during a visit to a Miami high school.

FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/article/florida-miami-arrests-473de89d62b4375ea078d5f030a97a11
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Officers detained him and patted him down. They found a pair of handcuffs, a thermometer shaped like a firearm...
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He was arrested for impersonating an officer, trespassing on school property with a firearm...
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Hang on, don't they mean "thermometer shaped like a firearm"?
 
Peripart said:
Hang on, don't they mean "thermometer shaped like a firearm"?
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I’d guess that Florida has the equivalent of s.10 Theft Act 1968:

Aggravated burglary.

(1) A person is guilty of aggravated burglary if he commits any burglary and at the time has with him any firearm or imitation firearm, any weapon of offence, or any explosive; and for this purpose—

(a) “firearm” includes an airgun or air pistol, and “imitation firearm” means anything which has the appearance of being a firearm, whether capable of being discharged or not…

maximus otter
 
EnolaGaia said:
I'm gonna file this under imposters because the son living with his parents was living an elaborate lie. He told his parents he was working toward - and had secured - a good job and was set to launch off on a great career. In fact, he was lolling about playing computer games. When his parents discovered the deceptions, he allegedly killed them, dismembered them, and scattered their remains around southern Wisconsin. ...
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Update:
This murderous son has been sentenced to life in prison without any possibility of ending incarceration short of death.
A Wisconsin judge has sentenced a young man convicted of murdering both of his parents to life in prison without any opportunity for extended supervision.

A jury convicted Chandler Halderson, who just turned 24 a few days before the Thursday sentencing hearing, on two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, two counts of providing false information regarding a kidnapped or missing person, two counts of mutilating a corpse, and two counts of hiding a corpse. That’s one count on each charge for each victim. ...

“I have to, for this sentencing, ensure that the only time Mr. Halderson comes back into the community is to have the privilege of the burial he denied his parents,” Judge John D. Hyland said while passing the sentence. ...
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SOURCE: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...s-parents-heads-to-prison-for-life/ar-AAVcY1E
 
This Tennessee man had been masquerading as someone else since the 1980s. The thing that finally allowed authorities to nab him was being video recorded at the place where he got his COVID vaccination.
Man hid his true identity for decades — until getting a COVID shot outed him, feds say

A Tennessee man was living using a different name for decades. No one knew his true identity — not even his girlfriend of 30 years, the mother of their three children.

That was until one small detail led law enforcement officials to his real identity: his COVID-19 vaccine.

Jerry Leon Blankenship, 65, from Newport, a city about 50 miles east of Knoxville, had been using someone else’s identity since the early 1980s ...

At the time, Blankenship had deserted the U.S. Navy after completing basic training. To avoid military service, he assumed the name and identity of another individual, authorities said.

Law enforcement in Tennessee became aware of Blankenship’s offenses after reports from a victim of identity theft in North Carolina ...

The man reported that “he had been plagued with identity theft issues” for the last 20 years. The most recent event had taken place in March 2021 when Walgreens contacted him about his COVID-19 vaccine — which he had never received ...

Law enforcement officials obtained video surveillance from Walgreens, which showed Blankenship receiving the vaccine in the man’s name ...

Blankenship pleaded guilty to one count of false use of a social security number and one count of aggravated identity theft, according to his plea agreement.

On March 21, Blankenship was sentenced to 25 months in prison followed by three years on supervised release ...

Blankenship could also face a military tribunal for his desertion, according to the release.
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FULL STORY: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/article259661000.html
 
A Kentucky man died after a woman identifying herself as his oldest daughter made end-of-life decisions about his care. The real oldest daughter happened to show up at the hospital to confront the imposter, who was actually the man's "ex-stepfather's sister's girlfriend's child."
Woman charged, accused of impersonating the daughter of a dying man at NKY hospital

David Marcus, 58, died Sunday at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Edgewood after suffering liver and kidney failure. ...

"He said he was ready to go," said Elisha Marcus, the man's oldest daughter. "He told me that if he was to become on life support, he didn't want to live that way."

He also told her he did not want extraordinary measures ...

Elisha Marcus said she was listed as her father's primary emergency contact. She visited him a few times while he was hospitalized and also called for updates. When she called for one Saturday evening she said the conversation went like this.

"And they say, 'What'd you say your name was again?' And I said, 'I'm Elisha Marcus.' 'No, you're not. Elisha Marcus is in his hospital room right now,'" she said.

She said at first she thought it was her sister who looks similar and there was a mix-up.

"They say, 'Elisha Marcus is in his hospital room and requested we don't give you any information. At this point, I'm livid and I'm cussing," she said.

She left work to go straight to the hospital and contacted Edgewood police.

... Maliesa Jones, 23, of Covington "signed in as and made life of care decisions for her uncle, David Marcus under the name Elisha Marcus" and "advised staff to remove care."

The real Elisha Marcus said Jones is not related to her father but referred to him as uncle. She described Jones as David Marcus' "ex-stepfather's sister's girlfriend's child."

Jones told police, "she loved her uncle and was trying to make the best decision for him" and "she knew what she did was wrong and she was sorry" ...

David Marcus died Sunday, the following morning. ...

Elisha Marcus said she just reconnected with her father a few years ago, because he was an alcoholic most of her life and tried to reconnect with his children after he learned he was in liver failure a few years ago. She said he was not sober until recently.

"I got three months of him sober. For the first time in 29 years, I got to see as a person," she said through tears. ...

Police are also investigating a theft from the hospital room. David Marcus was keeping $2,900 cash in his wallet. He told his daughter it was to cover his cremation and funeral expenses. His social security benefits card was also taken. Police have not named a suspect in the thefts.

Jones is charged with identity theft and forgery. Police removed her from the hospital Saturday at the request of staff. Her first court appearance is scheduled for April 19. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.wlwt.com/article/woman-charged-impersonating-daughter-of-dying-man/39604587
 
Impersonating federal agents is bad enough, but this is a whole new level. These guys apparently spent huge amounts of money on favors and gifts for real federal agents who are now under investigation for accepting them.

2 men arrested in DC for allegedly impersonating federal agents for at least 2 years
Officials claim the pair represented themselves as federal agents to actual members of federal law enforcement, such as a member of the first lady's security team.
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Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36, have both been charged with False Impersonation of an Officer of the United States.The pair were arrested leading to a raid of a Southeast building Wednesday afternoon.
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https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/...years/65-afb8cd82-0caa-44c2-8add-8aefc95cbf0e

BTW, the name of the crime confuses me. Don't you have to be a real officer to make it False Impersonation of an Officer of the United States?
 
ChasFink said:
Impersonating federal agents is bad enough, but this is a whole new level. These guys apparently spent huge amounts of money on favors and gifts for real federal agents who are now under investigation for accepting them.



https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/...years/65-afb8cd82-0caa-44c2-8add-8aefc95cbf0e

BTW, the name of the crime confuses me. Don't you have to be a real officer to make it False Impersonation of an Officer of the United States?
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Can't access this link but story is also at

https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/fbi-...cers-4-secret-service-agents-placed-on-leave/
 
ChasFink said:
... BTW, the name of the crime confuses me. Don't you have to be a real officer to make it False Impersonation of an Officer of the United States?
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The terminology is admittedly confusing at face value, but ...

No. Here's why ...

State and federal laws make distinctions between levels or degrees of "impersonation" recognized and prohibited under the law.

Impersonation's criminal status is usually defined with regard to one or both of two specific criteria in deliberate self-misidentification:

- Identifying oneself as being some other real person, and / or ...
- Acting (in some tangible sense - e.g., conducting financial transactions) under a falsified identity.

Impersonation meeting one or both these key criteria is a criminal offense, and the offense is defined within the law using a label which may involve a qualifier - e.g., "criminal impersonation" or "false impersonation."

Under US federal law "impersonation" meeting the criteria for criminality is labeled "false impersonation."
 
The plot thickens. The TV news today says the fake agents with money to burn are claiming they have no money for lawyers.
 
This one really had chutzpah.

In 2018, a 31-year-old woman from Meaux, France, identified as Sonia, decided to go into business as a general physician.

Thing is, her college degree was in real estate management. Regardless, Sonia apparently forged diplomas and a certificate to practice medicine and hung her shingle as a general physician. She apparently performed vaccinations and prescribed medicine. Why? Money, of course. From Oddity Central:

The woman not only practiced medicine for almost three years until being exposed in October of 2021, but she then moved on to the next best professional career, this time becoming an ophthalmologist. To make matters worse, for most of her time as a physician, Sonia wore a tagging bracelet around her ankle, for crimes committed previous to her appointment as a GP.
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The court sentenced Sonia to three years in prison.

https://boingboing.net/2022/04/07/w...e-years-saw-patients-prescribed-medicine.html
 
This man arrested in Tennessee presented himself as a Homeland Security agent (not for the first time ... ) and claimed his fox was a federal K-9 dog certified for bomb detection and search purposes.
Alleged Homeland Security impersonator claims fox as federal K-9 in ‘bizarre’ Humphreys County case

An unusual case in Humphreys County lands a man behind bars facing charges for impersonating a Homeland Security agent.

The case is centered around a red fox known as ‘Lu Lu’ that Keith Rediker claimed is a federal K-9, according to investigators. ...

“It’s bizarre, it’s very bizarre,” said Sheriff Chris Davis.

The investigation began after the fox was shot and killed by a neighbor in New Johnsonville. “It was killing her chickens, the animals on the property there that she had,” Davis explained. ...

That’s when the investigation took another turn. “Mr. Rediker had reached out to her and identified himself as a Homeland Security agent and said she was going to be in big trouble, that she had shot and killed a federal K-9 that was used in bomb detection and search and rescue,” said Davis. ...

The sheriff shared photos of the red fox inside a K-9 cage in the back of a vehicle and a service dog registration for Rediker and the fox that said K-9 search and rescue, K-9 explosive. ...

According to Sheriff Davis, this isn’t the first time Rediker has been in trouble with the law claiming to be a federal agent. “He makes no bones about it. He will wear around a bullet proof vest out in public and it has firearms instructor on it. He will present himself with BDU’s with a duty type belt. There’s way more than meets the eye to this. Looks like he’s been skating and floating and trying to present himself and appear as a Homeland Security agent in several counties across the state.” ...

Rediker faces criminal impersonation and is now out on bond, but more charges are expected. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-new...federal-k-9-in-bizarre-humphreys-county-case/
 
Not so much a preposterous imposter, but it was pretty preposterous that a man impersonating a priest was able to be entertained by the army at a barracks near Windsor Castle, before being invited to spend the night, all as a result of claiming to be a friend of the battalion's padre.

At no point was he asked for any identification, which seems just a teeny bit, er, rubbish!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ds-night-at-army-barracks-near-windsor-castle
 
cycleboy2 said:
Not so much a preposterous imposter, but it was pretty preposterous that a man impersonating a priest was able to be entertained by the army at a barracks near Windsor Castle, before being invited to spend the night, all as a result of claiming to be a friend of the battalion's padre.

At no point was he asked for any identification, which seems just a teeny bit, er, rubbish!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ds-night-at-army-barracks-near-windsor-castle
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Unbelievable. Sounds like something that might have happened in the 1960s, but in 2022?
 
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A former flight attendant has been using a dead infant's identity for circa two decades, during which time she portrayed herself as someone entirely different, attained celebrity status as a baker, and conned the government into giving her hundreds of thousands of dollars in COVID small business relief funding.
Cupcake Mogul Led a Wild Double Life Using Dead Baby’s Identity, Feds Say

A flight-attendant-turned-cupcake-entrepreneur hid her criminal past by stealing a dead infant’s identity and using it to obtain a job, a pilot’s license, a passport, admission to college, and, eventually, hundreds of thousands of dollars in COVID-19 bailout funds, federal investigators say.

The con went on for nearly two decades, until “Brie Bourgeois” slipped up last year while renewing her passport, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Friday.

Ava Virginia Misseldine, 49, was arrested Thursday by federal agents in Utah. Misseldine last year moved out west from Columbus, Ohio, where she ran a highly regarded organic bake shop. One of Misseldine’s businesses, the Koko Tea Salon & Bakery, was featured on the Food Network’s The Best Thing I Ever Ate ... In a 2014 interview with Columbus Monthly, Misseldine portrayed herself as a former cancer researcher who grew up in Hawaii, where, as she told The Columbus Dispatch a year earlier, her family ran a generations-old tea business. Misseldine said she moved to Ohio to study chemical engineering at Ohio State University, and that she got into baking in 2011 to honor her beloved grandmother.

But, a relative told The Daily Beast, most of that was news to him. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.yahoo.com/news/cupcake-mogul-led-wild-double-201353490.html
 
This guy kept not just that con going but used multiple other fake identities.

A court in India has sent to prison a man who was found guilty of posing as the son of a wealthy landlord for 41 years. The BBC's Soutik Biswas pieces together a gripping tale of deceit and delay in justice.

In February 1977, a teenage boy disappeared on his way home from school in the eastern state of Bihar. Kanhaiya Singh, the only son of an affluent and influential zamindar (landlord) in Nalanda district, was returning from a second day of exams. His family lodged a missing person report with the police.

Efforts to find Kanhaiya came to a naught. His ageing father slid into depression and began visiting quacks. A village shaman told him his son was alive and would "appear" soon.

In September 1981, a man in his early 20s arrived in a village, barely 15km (9 miles) from where Kanhaiya lived. ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61981241
 
This Florida man went too far in masquerading as a former Navy SEAL.
Fake Navy SEAL ordered to stop being a fake Navy SEAL

Plenty of people want to be Navy SEALs. Very few can become one, though. And, in lieu of actually undergoing the rigorous training, a few just cut directly to telling people they’re Navy SEALs. Like Miami resident Joseph Fucheck. ...

As part of a guilty plea for a 2020 aggravated assault, Fucheck, 60, was also ordered to stop posing as a decorated Navy SEAL and police SWAT team member. ...

In June, 2020 Dwayne Wynn was chatting with a neighbor in his North Miami-Dade neighborhood when he saw Fucheck place a small advertising card in his mailbox and drive away.

When Wynn went to remove the card, Fucheck returned and began a “profanity laced rant” accusing Wynn of not living at his house and stealing the card.

During the incident, which was caught on film, Fucheck began waving around a pistol and referred to Wynn using racial slurs and a derogatory term for gay people.

Fucheck, who was never in any branch of the military, let alone the Navy SEALs, also made sure to tout his non-existent Naval service.

“Damn right, I carry a gun because I’m a 35-year former Navy SEAL!” he yelled. “Go look at my Purple Heart!”

Fucheck was charged with aggravated assault with prejudice, the so-called “hate-crime” enhancement for which he faced up to 15 years in prison. ...

When detectives went to Fucheck’s apartment, they found Navy certificates, dress uniforms and a photo of Fucheck dressed up in an admiral’s uniform.

Fucheck was also apparently quite vocal about flaunting his supposed Navy SEAL bonafides. On his Jeep, Fucheck had attached a special license plate for Purple Heart recipients, for which he had submitted faulty paperwork to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

In 2013, his ex-wife’s husband said that Fucheck showed up at his gym in military fatigues claiming to have been a Navy SEAL and “bragging about how many people he killed in the war he fought.”

Fucheck’s estranged daughter also reported that his house contained a shrine to his non-existent service, and that he would wear his Navy uniform to get free drinks at restaurants. ...
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FULL STORY: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/joseph-fucheck-fake-navy-seal-florida-guilty-plea/
 
Here's a married couple who both assumed the identities of dead children in 1987 and lived under their false identities thereafter. The husband was a defense contractor and had a security clearance at one time. Photos of the couple modeling a KGB uniform were located in their home when the FBI searched it. It's not clear at all whether this case is deeper / stranger than it appears or not.

In any case, it's arguably "Fortean" because the husband's fake last name was Fort.
Defense contractor held without bail in ID theft mystery

A U.S. defense contractor accused of living under the name of a dead Texas boy for decades was ordered detained Thursday by a federal judge in Honolulu after a federal prosecutor added new details to the mystery of his changed identity.

Walter Glenn Primrose, 66, was held without bail after a federal prosecutor said he was a flight risk with “troubling” possible connections overseas to help him if he were freed.

Primrose and his wife have been charged with fraudulently living for decades under the stolen identities of two dead babies. Primrose used the name Bobby Edward Fort while serving more than 20 years in the U.S. Coast Guard and earning a secret-level security clearance that he took with him to his defense job. ...
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FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/article/texas-hawaii-honolulu-identity-theft-143e4493da66079b26346d5ac8365e4d
 
A purportedly Peruvian socialite widow and jeweler in Naples was actually a (Russian) GRU operative who mingled with NATO personnel.
Socialite who charmed Nato staff in Naples was Russian spy, say investigators

A team of investigators claim to have unmasked a deep-cover spy from Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, who spent a decade posing as a Latin American jewellery designer and partied with Nato staff based in Naples.

The investigators say the woman went by the name of Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera, and told people she met that she was the child of a German father and Peruvian mother, born in the city of Callao, Peru.

In fact, she was a career GRU officer from Russia, according to research by Bellingcat in partnership with a number of media outlets including La Repubblica in Italy and Der Spiegel in Germany, and shared with the Guardian before publication.

“Rivera” was what the intelligence community call an illegal, a deep-cover agent trained to pose as a foreigner. Moscow’s intelligence agencies have used illegals since the early Soviet period. Sometimes, they stay living in their fake identities for decades.

Posing as “Rivera”, the illegal moved between Rome, Malta and Paris, eventually settling in Naples, home of Nato’s Allied Joint Force Command, around 2013. She set up a jewellery boutique called Serein and led an active social life.

Her acquaintances said that by taking on the role of secretary at the Naples branch of the international Lions Club, she was able to befriend many Nato staff and other affiliates. One Nato employee told the investigators that he had a brief romantic relationship with “Rivera”.

Traditionally, illegals have been extremely hard for counterintelligence agencies to find, but in a world of biometric data, facial recognition software and open source investigation possibilities, it has become harder for Russia to keep its illegals below the radar. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...f-in-naples-was-russian-spy-say-investigators

A MORE DETAILED REPORT: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/202...t-charmed-her-way-into-nato-circles-in-italy/
 
An Indiana sheriff's deputy who'd previously worked for an Indiana town's police department impersonated a cop from his prior department to make trouble.
Southern Indiana deputy accused of posing as New Albany police officer in email

A Harrison County Sheriff's deputy is facing felony charges for allegedly posing as a New Albany police officer in an email that claimed officer misconduct.

An email was sent out in May 2022 to officers at Indiana State Police Post in Sellersburg, the Floyd County Prosecutor's office, the Floyd County Courts system, and news stations with claims of misconduct at the New Albany Police Department ...

"I received that email myself stating, you know, information that was going on at New Albany Police Department that was possibly not being looked into properly. So obviously it raised our eyebrows, you know, that's not an email that we want to receive," said Sgt. Carey Huls, with Indiana State Police. ...

The email allegedly claimed that the sender had reported the allegations, but the issues were not being addressed. The email also included a phone number and information about the officer's family.

Following the email, ISP began investigating the allegations ... and contacted the New Albany police officer who was listed as the sender.

That officer told police he had not sent the email, and "had no knowledge of such communication being sent" ...

Police then started investigating identity deception, which led to an arrest warrant issued for 37-year-old Ralph Weaver on Monday.

Weaver, who turned himself in on Monday afternoon according to ISP, is currently a sheriff's deputy with the Harrison County Sheriff's Department. He previously worked for the New Albany Police Department. ...

Weaver is charged with identity deception and obstruction of justice.

"They're both felony charges" ...

After turning himself in, Deputy Weaver was booked and arrested just like any other suspect in a criminal case. ...

Investigators say Deputy Weaver resigned from New Albany Police as the result of an internal investigation.
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FULL STORY: https://www.wdrb.com/news/southern-...cle_4307c67c-27c5-11ed-b1b7-0bc4f995a54a.html
 
A law enforcement impersonator pulled over a driver in Colorado. The driver was an off-duty deputy, who arrested the fake fuzz.
Suspect accused of impersonating an officer after pulling over Adams County deputy

Brighton Police Department says a man impersonating an officer chose the wrong car to pull over on Saturday afternoon on Interstate 76. ...

Police say the driver of ... a 2019 Dodge Durango, activated red and blue lights from a bar in his windshield, and tried to pull someone over.

His mistake? The car he was trying to stop was driven by an actual officer, an off-duty deputy with the Adams County Sheriff's Office.

"It seemed a little strange to this off-duty deputy" ... "Moments later, the Durango started to brake-check the off-duty deputy and forced him to the shoulder of the interstate."

Police say a man wearing a security shirt and holding a silver badge got out of the Durango and approached the other car.

... Fearing for his safety, the off-duty deputy pulled his firearm on the man and detained him.

"He was arrested on scene and booked into Adams County jail," Delohery said. That man was identified as Jose Flores Ortiz. He's charged with impersonating a peace officer, driving under the influence of alcohol, and prohibited use of a weapon, among other charges. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/ne...personator-interstate-76-adams-county-deputy/
 
Alabama man squatted in Stanford dorms, posed as student for 10 months

Stanford University recently removed from the basement of a campus housing unit an Alabama man who had pretended to be a student and lived in the dorms for 10 months.

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William Curry, from Birmingham, described himself as “pre-med at Stanford University” and completing a “Bachelor of medicine – Bachelor of Surgery – MBBS, Neuroscience.”

He was apprehended after someone caught him allegedly stealing a television, according to The Stanford Daily, which broke the story.

Curry had been living in the basement of Crothers Hall, a Stanford dorm, and was ultimately reported to the resident assistant there, according to the paper. Residents of the hall told the campus newspaper that Curry gave the impression he was on the track team.

The residential advisor said that the Birmingham man had been living there for weeks, according to internal messages on [a] chat platform.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/alabama-man-pretends-to-be-a-stanford-student-for-10-months/

maximus otter
 
Don't know it this is true! But good story!

From Twitter: Kevin Bass @kevinnbass
Liver King performance enhancing drug regimen just leaked.
Tens of thousands of dollars worth of pharmaceuticals per year.
Imagine people thought this guy was natural.

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This time it took four days to uncover, Brian MacKinnon got away with it for a year.

A 29-year-old woman has been arrested in New Jersey for allegedly posing as a high school student.

The woman, identified by police as Hyejeong Shin, has been charged with using a fake identification document to enrol in New Brunswick High School. Ms Shin attended the school for four days before staff found out her age. School officials said police are investigating the matter, and a review of the district's enrolment process will be conducted.

The issue came to light at a local education board meeting on Tuesday, where New Brunswick Public School District Superintendent Aubrey Johnson told attendees that Ms Shin was caught at the school.

"Last week, by filing some false documents, an adult female posing as a student was able to be enrolled in our high school," Mr Johnson said.

He added that she had been in a few classes and spent some time with guidance counsellors, who tried to find out more information about her. Ms Shin's false age was then uncovered, Mr Johnson said, and the school immediately notified police.

She has since been arrested for providing a false birth certificate "with the intent to enrol as a juvenile high-school student", the New Brunswick Police Department has said. ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64408449
 
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