Mitchell Shoemaker charged for impersonating Hans Gruber
A Cypress man has been arrested for impersonating a federal agent in order to train real police officers.
Mitchell Gregory Shoemaker, 31, has been charged in federal court. He is accused of impersonating a Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) special agent.
According to the criminal complaint, Shoemaker solicited police officers at a private, law enforcement-only gun range in Magnolia, telling them he could train them.
In a sting on Tuesday, undercover DSS special agents took him up on it. Court records say he wore a badge and a tactical vest with “POLICE” on it and told them DSS recruited him based on his experience as a U.S. Navy SEAL.
However, during his arrest, he said he was really a CIA agent “on covert assignment to DSS.”
His girlfriend told officers Shoemaker had numerous guns and badges. Neighbors say authorities raided his townhome on Mill Ridge in Cypress Wednesday night.
Shoemaker remains in custody. He was already on deferred adjudication in Harris County on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which prohibits him from possessing a firearm.
Source: Cypress man Mitchell Shoemaker charged for impersonating federal agent | abc13.com
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Dude, I totally believe him, That’s the look of a steely eyed killer there! 😉
Trying to run a con on police? Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, here.
Wasn’t Shoemaker a famous jockey from the 1950’s. I wonder if this bothers your sole shoemaker but I doubt it. You got a son named Pinnochio?
Impersonating Hans Gruber? Well, which one?
Hans Gruber, the Canadian orchestra conductor?
Hans Gruber, the German footballer (soccer)
Hans Gruber from Reanimator
Hans Gruber, the corporal from Combat!
Hans Gruber from Our Man Flint
or is he trying to pretend that he is really Hans Gruber, the pet pig from American Housewife?
C’mon, spill. Which Hans Gruber is he pretending to be?
Bitch, Bitch, Bitch … it never ends. Don’t you have cookies or something to do?
I realize being confined to your palatial estate this time of year is frustrating … but it’s for the greater good.
Please be kind to civilians.
I have a cold and I’m whiny.
Give them the right to vote and pretty soon they start to believe we value their opinion.
(Assumes fetal position in nearest corner, cowering like a pussy poser.)
Yes.
Hans Gurber in Bruce Willis Die Hard series?
C’mon, pay attention. What time of year is this?
It’s Franz Gruber, composer of “Silent Nigjt”.
“Night”
I’m just curious who ties his shoes everyday? Or does he wear Uggs?
This is the perfect example of what happens when you put safety stickers on everything. Darwin gets robbed all the time.
Some of the things that you guys post here are absolutely priceless.
I am SO borrowing that.
Did he brag that he had a PhD as well? Seems like that’s about all that’s missing!
Not to be trusted. He has beady little eyes.
Well, he’s stupid but he has a set, thinking he could pull this off.
Thanks to warning labels, critters like him deny Darwin every day!
No man, that’s Jack Bauer.
It would be edifying to see how the enrollees payments were processed.
Pity he didn’t try to impersonate Hans Gruber by falling off of Nakatomi Plaza!