Dennis Meade, background photo, is accused of impersonating a police officer. The inset photo allegedly shows the radios, lights and siren controls in the center console of Meade’s SUV. (Screenshots from Ohio State Highway Patrol)
A man with convictions for impersonating law enforcement is accused of doing it again, flashing realistic police lights while carrying a loaded pistol and allegedly trying to ram a family in a minivan on a highway in Ohio .
Dennis Meade, 52, faces one count of impersonating an officer , a first-degree misdemeanor, online court records show.
The case came to light on Saturday at 5:40 p.m. on a highway in Miamisburg, south of Dayton. The suspect, driving a white Chevrolet Tahoe, allegedly tried to pull over a couple in a minivan with two toddlers in the back seat.
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Adam Hollon, the minivan driver, told police that the Tahoe driver flashed his lights to get him to pull over and tried ramming the minivan.
“He took a sharp turn and tried to ram me,” Hollon told an investigator, recorded on police body camera footage .