Anderson Independent-Mail
WELLFORD, S.C. - Spartanburg County sheriff’s deputies are reporting a police impersonator attempted to get money from a driver he stopped near Wellford.
A man was driving north on U.S. 29 near Interstate 85 Monday when he noticed a dark blue Tahoe was following him, according to the sheriff’s office report.
The man said the vehicle had blue strobe lights in the grill and stopped around 4 p.m.
The man said the driver of the Tahoe approached him and said there was something wrong with his license plate. The driver of the Tahoe was described as a stocky white man who was 6 feet 3 inches or 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighed between 270 and 300 pounds.
He was told he could pay the Tahoe driver, but the man said he didn’t have any money with him.
The Tahoe driver then told him to leave. The police impersonator drove away in the direction of Duncan.
The driver who was stopped drove to a convenience store and called the sheriff’s office.
Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright says he believes Monday’s stop is related to a stop last Wednesday night on Nazareth Church Road where a bogus cop reportedly pulled a woman over and then raped her.
In the meantime, Greenville County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a reported police investigator from early Monday morning, but there’s no reason to think that incident was related to the Spartanburg incidents.
A woman says she was driving on East North Street around 2:30 a.m. when a vehicle behind her had flashing white lights in the grill.
She pulled over at Ramblewood Apartments and said the car stopped before pulling around her. She said there was no further contact, but she did see the driver of a black two-door Chevrolet Malibu.
He was described as a black man in his late 20s who was wearing a white, long-sleeved T-shirt.
GCSO investigators say there’s no evidence to show this was linked to an earlier incident in the county or a previous report of an incident in Spartanburg County.
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