A Florida man was arrested for impersonating an officer during a traffic stop of a plainclothes detective with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
According to the Tampa Bay Times , the subject reportedly lit up blue and red lights installed in the grill of his vehicle. The detective refused to pull over. The subject—identified as 26-year-old Matthew Joseph Erris—merged over to the inside lane, turned off the emergency lights and passed the detective, who subsequently called dispatchers to alert patrol deputies, police say. A deputy in a marked vehicle then pulled Erris over.
