Ray William Johnson

And so then, he just starts cosplaying as a cop.

Not just while he's working his security guard job at the Salvation Army, but he'll like apparently listen on his police scanner for crimes being reported in the area, and then he'll just like show up to the crime scene and act like he's from a neighboring police department, and he'll try to assist the real officers as backup.

Like one night, a 7-Eleven employee calls police to come and trespass someone.

And I guess Michael hears about this on his police scanner and he just like shows up, pretending he's gonna help mediate the situation.

And you can see him there on the other officer's body cam.

And when he shows up to these places, no one questions it.

Like, I don't know, he looks like a cop, he talks like a cop.

Sometimes there are other cops there on the scene and they don't second guess him.

And this goes on for months.

And I guess people in the area really believe that he's an officer that's in the neighborhood just, you know, keeping it safe and checking things out.

But then, finally...

It all starts to go wrong because one night local police are out responding to a small fire that was reported in a parking garage.

And I guess Michael hears about this report on his police scanner or whatever, but he finds out about it and he decides that he's going to go play cop and check it out.

So he drives over to the scene of the incident and he pulls up in his unmarked vehicle and his fake police lights are turned on and everything.

And he gets out of his car and there are other real police officers there.

And before any of them say anything, he tells them that he's with Edmunds.

Edmunds is a different police department than what these guys are with.

And Michael, he's in his full police uniform with his tactical gear and his pistol in his holster.

So he looks legit enough to these guys, I guess.

But then some of the officers kind of start feeling a bit skeptical about Michael.