A traffic stop took an unexpected turn when a fake deputy encountered a driver who turned out to be a real deputy, according to investigators in western North Carolina.
It happened on Tuesday, Feb. 3, in Henderson County, and the suspect not only had blue lights on his vehicle, but he “was wearing a gun, badge and handcuffs,” an arrest warrant reports.
Rodrigo Barrera-Lozada, 22, has been charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer, and felony operating blue lights to cause a stop or yield the right of way, the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office said in a Feb. 4 news release…