Armed man in tactical vest arrested after allegedly impersonating a police officer

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Police allegedly discovered Brendon Douglas driving round in a Ford Crown Victoria, wearing a tactical vest and armed with a handgun, handcuffs, and a number of other knives.

A New Hampshire man is dealing with fees in Massachusetts after allegedly impersonating a police officer by carrying tactical gear and driving round in a car that resembled a police cruiser.

Police in Bernardston, Massachusetts, mentioned an officer stopped the suspicious car Tuesday night and located the motive force wearing a “tactical vest with a police model badge pinned to the entrance, armed with a handgun, handcuffs, a number of knives and quite a few different police model gear.”

The motive force, 21-year-old Brendon L. Douglas of Hooksett, New Hampshire, pleaded not responsible to varied fees in Greenfield District Court docket final week, The Greenfield Recorder reported. 

In response to the New Hampshire Union Chief, Douglas was charged with three counts of carrying a harmful weapon and one rely every of driving with an unregistered, uninsured, and unlicensed motorcar. Different fees included one rely of carrying a loaded firearm and not using a license, a felony cost to be used of physique armor, possessing ammunition and not using a firearms certificates, possessing a big capability firearm, and impersonating a police officer, the newspaper reported.

Throughout their investigation, Bernardston police mentioned they discovered that Douglas is thought in New Hampshire for related points, together with impersonating an officer.

A lawyer for Douglas was not instantly reachable for remark Monday morning. 

In response to a police report obtained by the Recorder, there was a push bumper and light-weight bar connected to Douglas’s blue and white Ford Crown Victoria.

The Union Chief reported that when requested why he was carrying tactical gear, Douglas “acknowledged that there’s a lot of violence in Manchester, N.H., and when he travels, he will get nervous that he’ll run into hassle so he travels along with his gear on.”

Douglas allegedly informed an officer he was in Massachusetts as a result of he was driving to Washington state for work and deliberate to chop by means of Vermont into New York, the Recorder reported. When informed Massachusetts was not on the way in which, he reportedly mentioned he’d gotten misplaced. 

The officer discovered no clothes or suitcases within the automobile to counsel Douglas was truly on a cross-country journey, based on the Recorder. 

Authorities additionally discovered 49 rounds of ammunition and a handwritten word within the automobile that raised considerations a couple of threat of suicide, Assistant Northwestern District Lawyer Aidan Lanciani mentioned in court docket Friday, per the Recorder.

In response to the Union Chief, the word learn: “When you discover this name Jack,” adopted by a cellphone quantity and “Inform him to let Aimee know what occurred to me then name my dad and inform him what occurred.” Considered one of Douglas’s attorneys defined that he had carried the word for some time, and that it served as an emergency contact.

Douglas is being held on $3,000 bail and is due again in court docket July 14, the newspaper reported.