Back in April 2007, we reported that an unmarked silver Chrysler 300 was was involved in an accident on the streets of Ft. Lauderdale while answering to a shooting call. However, the undercover police officer failed to have the pursuit lights on while speeding to the destination. As a result, he ended up killing Donald Perry a 49 year old man. The unmarked police car struck the pedestrian so violently that it dismembered the victim’s legs in front of by-standing witnesses.

Two years after the tragedy, the city of Ft. Lauderdale has settled with the relatives of the victim for $65,000. This small price does not seem to reimburse the undercover officer’s negligent mistake. At the same time, the police officer that caused the horrible accident has been cleared of any wrong doing.

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Looks like another fake undercover cop is having fun in Uniontown, PA. It was a Wednesday morning on December 31, 2008 when a woman told cops that a undercover officer almost hit her car, and proceeded to forced her off the road. The fake unmarked police car was described as a sport utility vehicle. As the woman pulled over, the suspect identified himself as a police office while cursing at the victim and driving off. Police later said the same impersonating unmarked cop had also forced another vehicle off the road earlier that day.

The Uniontown Police stated that the involved SUV was not an undercover police vehicle, and that it did not have emergency pursuit lights. Why these two victims pulled over for a vehicle with no emergency strobe lights is a wonder but should also be a lesson to everyone.

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In Michigan, a 24 year old man got a big surprise one night when he was having fun driving his disguised SUV through Ann Arbor. It turns out, he had fitted his truck with a bunch of goodies like undercover police lights along with a police siren. It was all fun until he makes the mistake of pulling over another vehicle that happened to be a real undercover cop car.

Police reports state that two uniformed police officers were on patrol in their unmarked car that Monday morning when they witnessed a car driving at high speeds through the Arch Street intersection around 2:40am. The undercover police officers followed the fast moving car in their vehicle, but quickly spotted an SUV in their rear view mirror quickly approaching with flashing police lights and sirens. The unmarked police officers pulled over to make way for the SUV, thinking it was a marked police cruiser that was pursuing the other speeding vehicle. To the officer’s surprise, the SUV pulled up next to them as the driver began shouting to drive more carefully for nearly hitting his friends that were in the other speeding vehicle.

When the driver saw two uniformed police officers in their unmarked car through the window, his night of fun was quickly over as he was arrested on the spot by the two Ann Arbor police officers. He now faces felony charges for impersonating a police officer which might land him up to 4 years in jail.

The police will be sure to equip some more undercover cop cars thanks to you Shelby, as we are sure they will put to use the lights and sirens they confiscated from your SUV in some of their unmarked cars.

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