Police in Prince William County, Virginia, have arrested a man who they say was trying to pass himself off as a cop.
And he picked the one place his story was least likely to fly: at a police station.
Officers said the man, later identified as Matthew Bailey Thompson, 45, of Manassas, showed up at the gate to a secure parking lot at their central police station on Davis Ford Road in Woodbridge around 7 p.m. Wednesday.
He tried to get into the lot by telling them that he was an officer, too.
Thompson was told he couldn’t enter the lot, so he drove off.
Police arrested him on Thursday and charged him with trespassing and impersonating a police officer.
He’s being held without bond, pending a court date.
This is the second such incident that has happened in Woodbridge after another Virginia man was charged after police said he impersonated an officer and pointed a gun at people on separate nights in July.
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