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South Hackensack Police Capt. Robert Kaiser told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that his investigators also “haven’t heard of any other incidents yet” in which Scott Geddes impersonated a law enforcement officer.
The unemployed Geddes told a borough police officer that he was with the New York SPCA — an agency that doesn’t exist, Kaiser said. He also showed the officer a fake ID card with his photo and name, as well as what looked like a genuine badge, the captain said.
The impersonation didn’t end there.
Geddes, 48, of Lynbrook, N.Y., was driving a Ford Taurus tricked out with sirens, strobe lights, tinted windows, a license-plate cover, a police scanner — and a camera next to the rearview mirror, Kaiser said.
The officer checked him out after a clerk at the Stagecoach Motel said that Geddes identified himself as a law enforcement officer.
He arrested Geddes after he found him carrying a loaded .357 revolver in his waistband, the captain said.
Among other items that Kaiser said were seized: handcuffs, a bullet-proof vest, pepper spray, a gas mask, a blackjack, a nightstick, badge-engraving equipment and nearly 100 bogus badges from the FBI, Department of Defense, NYPD and other agencies.
Topping it off, Kaiser said, Geddes also had a copy of the Miranda warning read to people being arrested.
Geddes was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with a pair of weapons offenses — including being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Investigators, meanwhile, were trying to determine where the badges and other gear came from.
TOP IMAGE: Courtesy SOUTH HACKENSACK PD, MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF
IMAGES: Courtesy SOUTH HACKENSACK PD
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