Middletown, NY – Police say a man impersonating an FBI agent with a search warrant tried to con his way into a home in the First Ward on Monday — but he picked the police chief’s house.
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Middletown and state police say Santiago Contreras, 20, knocked on Chief Ramon Bethencourt’s door at 9:18 a.m., said he was with the FBI, flashed ID – actually a resident alien ID card – and held up a sheet of paper he claimed was a search warrant allowing him to search the home.
Bethencourt immediately asked to see the ID again, police said, and Contreras left. Police found him shortly afterward on Irwin Avenue – with plastic gloves and a homemade plastic shank tucked up the sleeve of his jacket.
Does he think anyone is stupid enough for that to work? An alien card instead of a badge! He could have bought a badge on Ebay.
And the other day there was the stoty of a guy who pulled over a motorist impersonating a police officer only to realize that he tried pulling a police officer. My question is are so many of these guys getting it right that we don’t hear about, and we only hear about the ones that screw up, or is it these guys are such shlomazels that they can never get it right.
This story should make it to the “stupid news” column. Hysterical!
A dissapointing story………like a joke with a fouled up punch-line- I would have liked to have read that the Chief shot him dead. All cops I know, as well as sensible citizens answer the door ( other than for friends/relatives) with a gun at the ready. This can be done discretely (such as behind a newspaper).