Weird Crimes – Fake DEA Agent Trainee
Several news outlets are reporting on a woman that was under the impression she was a trainee for the DEA until she presented her badge to authorities and it proved to be fake.
Portland police Sgt. Matt Jacobsen spotted a tactical vest bearing a DEA patch in the open trunk of a silver Dodge Charger stopped in downtown Portland. He noticed the car had red-and-blue lights on the front interior and around the rear license plate.
The sergeant approached the man and woman standing beside the car and asked if they were narcotics agents.
The man, later identified as 41-year-old Robert Edward Golden, insisted they were “feds” and directed the woman with him to show the officer her credentials, according to the sergeant.
The woman pulled out a badge and Drug Enforcement Administration credentials, according to a criminal complaint.
Now Golden is facing federal prosecution, accused of impersonating a federal agent.
The woman with Golden was not charged as she said Golden had issued her a DEA badge, had taken her on nightly “ride alongs” to do surveillance, helped her practice shooting and promised she’d soon be training with other agents, even naming them as “Agent Anderson,” “Agent Luis,” and “Agent Garcia,” the complaint says. She told an investigator she’d been in training to be a DEA agent for a year.
After Golden was arrested, he told investigators he had taken the woman to speak with homeless people to try to develop confidential informants in case “something happened” to him, according to the complaint.
She’d flash her DEA credentials when they would approach the homeless people, he said, according to the complaint.
She was not charged because she was the one being duped. She must have been having dreams of runnin’ and gunnin’ with the DEA and accepted all the recruitment of informants through the homeless population as being legit.
She’s not going to jail but there goes a year of tuition and fees down the drain.
This sounds like a “Training Day” movie variant for the Lifetime Channel. Whoopi in the lead role.
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I don’t get it. Was this an elaborate scheme to get laid? Or did he simply get off on playing cops and robbers?
Those two options are not mutually exclusive.
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Fake cop with a fake gun? And his back up? “…an AR 15 style rifle that turned out to be a BB Gun.” Wonder if the wanna be DEA dude is related to the DRT in the FGS today? THAT idjit took a BB gun to a knife fight.
Gotta wonder if the wanna be agent got into somebody’s evidence locker. Dumbass!
Sounds like some All-Points Logistics operations.
Train the trainer, per se.
Probably one of Phildo’s brain trust plans. Expand out a bit with the law enforcement angles.
OK, I’m not saying anything BUT, a couple of quick questions pop into my mind…
Haven’t we seen this style or type of shit with posers (romance scams frauds) and (continued)
How come I never see any photos of you and your buddies in your unit? How come I never see any paystubs or orders or any official documentation from work? How come there’s no trail of legit shit we all had to go through like Chow Hall, Dental, Training Classes, Awards and Decorations (legit), travel order, ID cards, Phone rosters or phone calls, just basic shit that trails us all from our legit careers that just isn’t there in this case that’s the backstory of life? You know, all the rudimentary shit we all have to go through to exist in the beaurocracy of life, not to mention a government organization like the DEA? No paper trail? Nothing? Bueller? Bueller?? HELLO, MCFLY!!!
*shakes my GOT-DAMN head* and this shit went on for a YEAR, a fucking YEAR!!!!. That is a long ass time.
Shh! Its secret, dont tell ANYBODY!
Concur.
Too often the gullibility that is out there is nothing short of astounding.
I’m guessing this woman was (how can I say this delicately?) not a MENSA candidate. Big question is: What was he getting from her? Money? Poontang? Both?
From the article linked above:
‘[…]
Golden told investigators that he and the woman were into “cosplay,” or costume play, and had bought the fake DEA badges and other credentials online, according to the complaint.
[…].’
Looks like they were into playing “dress up” together.
Maybe they both were knowing participants in the cosplay, but a prior agreement had him taking the fall if they got busted. The cops, however, are under the impression she was an innocent party.
We’ve had a few MENSA folks round these parts over the years right Dennis? (NOT Not Dennis) and possibly Psul, or was that MESNA?
The Cheese Stands Alone 😳🤨🤣
I am wondering why he is using non-firearms to sell his con. Convicted felon? No ammo?
Maybe he’s just a cheapskate?
This “Broad” has to be the most dumb, the most gullible, the most ignorant, to ever come before us. It is as if she is auditioning for a membership in the DRG/DRC. IDC SARC can hit it if he wants, but something that gullible has to be well plumbed, (<<if’n ya know what I mean), I’ll pass.
Ladies Auxiliary of The Dutch Rudder Group. Maybe they can have a chili cook OOD to raise awareness about fake DEA Agents.
With a year of this intense training in her folder, she is more than qualified to be a watch commander for Ambassador Worldwide Protection Agency. Maybe she can help Thomas “Turd”Bolling track down his misplaced firearms.
And his misplaced SEAL credentials.
And LEO credentials.
She must not have researched it too much or she’d be wondering when she was going to attend FLETC at the former Glynco NAS.
Remote learning due to COVID. For weapons qualification, you erect a target in the backyard, fire off a magazine of rounds, then mail it for you score.
Back in the day, I used to get quite the rise out of my AD counterparts by telling them stories of going through Basic Training via correspondence course. I suspect that there are still people out there who think that the National Guard had the option of doing basic by mail, getting a box with a big stack of yellow correspondence courses, a Ploaroid camera to send in pictures for uniform inspection, an alarm clock that played reveille, and a bunch of personalized cassette tapes of Drill Sergeants screaming at you.
Having been AD and Reserve, I got way too hearty a chuckle reading this. 😀
This is the true no shitter type of story we all yearn for in our careers. Not the daring do kinda hero shit like singlehandedly taking down Obama Bin Biden.
There’s gotta be some use for Scratch-n-Sniff cards.
Gotta be a student loan angle to this somewhere.
Or a COVID-no-obligation-to-pay-it-back-small-business loan.
Maybe PPP…
O.P.P.: Other People’s Police
From the article: “Golden was held Thursday night in the downtown jail and returned to court again Friday afternoon.”
“This time, the judge released Golden from custody on a number of conditions. Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Nyhus didn’t object to Golden’s pre-trial release.”
“Golden must find and keep a full-time job or attend school or both, limit travel to Oregon unless he gains permission to leave the state, submit to drug testing, participate in a mental health evaluation and take care of a pending warrant out of Texas within 30 days of his release. It’s unclear what the Texas warrant stems from.”
Here is what happened in Texas in December 2016 that generated that Warrant. Also attached is his Mugshot.
https://www.news-journal.com/news/police/police-beat-thursday-dec-15-2016/article_4122af3e-6c49-5f35-ba34-ec3196e8513c.html
“Robert Edward Golden, 36, of Kilgore was held Wednesday on $2,000 bond, charged with possession of a controlled substance measuring
Correction.
What generated the warrant was Robert Edward Golden getting a Misdemeanor in Gregg County, Texas for Driving Without A License in November 2016. He still owes Texas about $338.00. He was charged with a Felony for the possession of a controlled substance a month later in December 2016 (see above with Mugshot) and was indicted in February 2017.
We suspect Robert Edward Golden, born around April 1980, has some serious mental issues combined with substance abuse.
I see what you’re saying…
Chipster:
We do see the similarity between Robert Golden’s 2016 Mugshot and the picture of the cute pooch you posted…
You always crack us up. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!
Man, Seth Green really let himself go.
Damn, was in Kilgore last night!
I only have one question: did her training include the lethal Shovel Fu?
(Apologies to Joe Bob)
Aw shit….
I have seen this dripping turd in Longview a few times. Hope he has no intent to return home because I might have to release a little stress upon him.
Douchebag.
Here is the Official Document on the story.
We are chuckling, because the woman has been identified as “AW1” in the document.
As in “Adult Witness 1.”
Had to admit that we thought for a second of our beloved TAH Admin Guru, AW1Ed….*grin*
We are not gonna touch the “Adult Witness” portion with Ed’s Navy Rating or Rank or whatever it is…(we are STILL learning)..
gabn
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21197786-golden
I doubt Golden will spend his Golden years in jail
This military phony convinced an entire town, including the police department that he was an agent from a non-existent drug agency.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-a-phony-fed-fooled-a-small-town/
He was out there performing home invasions and kidnapping under color of law with support of the local fuzz.