In this Aug. 16, 2019 photo provided by the Nassau County Police Department in Hicksville, N.Y., 25-year-old Valiery Portlock is shown. (Nassau County Police Department via AP)
HICKSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Police in the New York City suburbs say they've arrested a fake cop who tried to pull over real detectives.
Nassau County police say Valiery Portlock sounded a horn and flashed emergency lights Friday morning as he an attempt to pull over a van in Hicksville, Long Island.
The unmarked van turned out to be occupied by detectives from the department's electronics squad.
Police say that once the detectives identified themselves and approached his vehicle, the 25-year-old Portlock swerved his Nissan Sentra into oncoming traffic and sped to the Long Island Expressway.
Police say highway patrol officers eventually pulled Portlock over and arrested him without incident.
He is in custody pending arraignment Saturday on charges including criminal impersonation and reckless endangerment. Court records do not list a lawyer who could comment on his behalf.
cmonkeysmash on August 19th, 2019 at 11:09 UTC »
Long Islander here... we have a lot of this for some reason. The vast majority of them are volunteer firefighters also.
Spock_Rocket on August 19th, 2019 at 07:48 UTC »
I know this idiot. He failed out of an EMT course, got kicked out of volunteer EMS, joined volunteer fire...a real Ricky Rescue. And if I recall he's Mormon (or some flavor of nutty Christian) with a mail order bride. He's a complete creep.
Edit: for your enjoyment, our hero in his fire duds. Cropped out his wife, she has it bad enough.
states_obvioustruths on August 19th, 2019 at 06:02 UTC »
So was this an elaborate robbery scheme or what?