{"id":30491,"date":"2012-06-22T14:56:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T18:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30491"},"modified":"2012-06-22T14:56:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T18:56:34","slug":"phony-mp-pulls-over-real-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30491","title":{"rendered":"Phony MP pulls over real cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone dropped off <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2012\/06\/21\/anthony-mastrogiovanni-police-impersonater-makes-mistake-of-pulling-over-off-duty-cop\/\">a link to us on Facebook<\/a> about Anthony Kenneth Mastrogiovanni who pulled over a motorist for speeding in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, there were two problems; Mastrogiovanni isn&#8217;t a cop and the guy he pulled over was a cop;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prince George\u2019s County Police say 29-year-old Anthony Kenneth Mastrogiovanni, of the 900 block of Eastham Court, was driving a white pickup truck on southbound Route 301 when he attempted to stop the Capitol Height Police Officer in his personal vehicle around 4:09 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The off-duty officer identified himself as being a Capitol Heights Police Officer to Mastrogiovanni who, in turn, said he was a military police officer from Louisiana and advised the officer that he was speeding.<\/p>\n<p>The officer then told the suspect that he had no jurisdiction. He also informed him that having blue and red emergency equipment installed on his truck was illegal in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Mastrogiovanni reportedly then fled the scene at Route 301 and Trade Zone Avenue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s his official-looking Nissan police truck;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Police-truck.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Police-truck-300x226.jpg?resize=300%2C226\" alt=\"\" title=\"Police truck\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Police-truck.jpg?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Police-truck.jpg?w=497&amp;ssl=1 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I would have pulled over just so I could steady my aim.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/national\/2012\/06\/how-not-impersonate-police-officer\/53833\/\">Atlantic Wire<\/a> reports that there other police impersonators out there;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WRAL, a local North Carolina station, reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/story\/10972243\/\">four similar impersonators<\/a> running traffic stops back in April, and robbing their victims. It pops up elsewhere, too, as in  a February <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/Woman-reports-traffic-stop-by-police-impersonator-3340570.php\">Houston Chronicle<\/a> story about a suspected police impostor running traffic stops but not robbing the victims, just criticizing some woman&#8217;s driving. Talk about a power trip!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone dropped off a link to us on Facebook about Anthony Kenneth Mastrogiovanni who pulled over a motorist for speeding in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, there were two problems; Mastrogiovanni isn&#8217;t a cop and the guy he pulled over was a cop; Prince George\u2019s County Police say 29-year-old Anthony Kenneth Mastrogiovanni, of the 900 block of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-7VN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}