A Fort Lauderdale man is headed to jail after a plea deal in a case involving a fake police officer act, according to the Sun Sentinel.
Mark, 23, admitted that on more than a dozen occasions over a period of a few months he pretended to be a police officer while meeting women, and that he threatened to arrest those who said no. According to the Sun Sentinel, he told investigators that some of the women went along with his demands, while others made it as far as the front steps of the police station before the encounter ended.
Mark was arrested in August 2015 and released on $10,000 bail. Reports say that on the night of his first arrest, he drove one woman to the Broward Sheriff’s Office headquarters and pretended to take a phone call that was meant to convince her she was about to be arrested. She did not believe he was really an officer and began dialing 911 on her cell phone, and Mark drove away. He had no prior criminal record.
On Monday, Mark pleaded no contest to impersonating an officer and false imprisonment. Both are felonies that together carry a maximum of 20 years in prison. Under the plea deal he was not formally convicted of the felonies and received a nine month sentence.
His defense attorney, Michael Weinstein, told the paper that Mark knew he was going to jail and had accepted responsibility, saying he had been remorseful throughout the case.
Source: Sun Sentinel
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