State police are investigating a possible case of a police impersonator last week in West Wheatfield Township.
It happened at around 8:15 on the morning of April 17th on Mulligan Hill at Route 259. Police say a 20-year-old New Florence reported that she rolled through a stop sign on a back road and suddenly a black Ford Mustang with tinted windows started following her, flashing its high beams. After about ten minutes, she pulled over and the man in the car, wearing a gray or tan long-sleeved shirt and police duty gear, including a handgun and baton, approached her car. He told her she had run the stop sign and he was giving her a verbal warning, but he did not identify himself as a police officer, and did not ask for her driver’s license or any vehicle information.
The man was not wearing a name tag but the woman says his “uniform” may have had a Pennsylvania State Police patch on it. She described him as white, in his fifties, with short, balding hair.
The woman reported the incident this past Monday afternoon at the state police barracks in White Township. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call police at 357-1960.
