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Fla. man pretending to be cop pulls over deputy, gets arrested

Deputies say man was performing traffic stops when he pulled over a deputy in an unmarked patrol car

By Adrienne Cutway
Orlando Sentinel

PENSACOLA, Fla. — A Florida man was arrested after pulling over a deputy while he was impersonating a police officer, according to the .

Joshua Dwayne Lynam is accused of pulling over a police officer while he was impersonating a deputy.

Now authorities are looking for anyone else who may have been pulled over by 24-year-old Joshua Lynam while he was driving a gold Chevrolet truck with red and white emergency lights and Florida tag 869 UBN.

Deputies say Lynam was performing traffic stops on Oct. 9 in the Pensacola area when he pulled over an ECSO deputy who was driving an unmarked patrol car. The deputy asked Lynam for identification and we he couldn’t provide it he was arrested, the Pensacola News Journal reports.

Prior to this incident, records show that Lynam was arrested in Santa Rosa County in 2013 on charges of assaulting an officer and interfering with an officer using violence.

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