MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A southwest Miami-Dade man is facing a felony charge after sheriff’s deputies said he pretended to be an FBI agent and pulled over a motorist near Kendall Drive on Thursday.
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Mario Enrique Allende, 59, had red and blue lights on his blue Mitsubishi Outlander, along with FBI gear, deputies said.
Authorities said a man flagged down a deputy to report that he had just been pulled over by Allende along Southwest 133rd Avenue and 88th Lane in the Kendale Lakes area but did not believe he was a “real cop.”
An arrest report states that at around 4 p.m., Allende activated the red and blue lights on his vehicle and pulled the victim over. Deputies said he came out wearing a black hat with “FBI” on it.
Authorities said Allende then flashed a black wallet that had the FBI insignia on it, identified himself as a “federal agent” and told the man “he would be going to federal prison for almost causing an accident.”
But Allende would be the only one ending the day locked up.
Deputies said they found him at the location of the traffic stop and a deputy coming up to him saw Allende “removing the removable red and blue lights as well as his FBI hat and throwing them in the rear seat of his vehicle.”
Authorities redacted an alleged confession from the arrest report.
They took Allende into custody on a charge of falsely personating an officer.
As of Friday, the Cuban national was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $2,500 bond.