Man Posing as Police Officer Pulls Over Undercover Detective

sJames Dale Smith, 58, an employee of J.J.K. Security in Chattanooga, turned on his strobe light and tried to stop a car on Shugart Road shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday.


What Smith didn’t know was the car was an undercover vehicle and the driver a Dalton Police Department detective.

When the detective saw the strobe, he radioed for a marked police car and continued driving.

Smith, driving a white Crown Victoria with a “Police Interceptor” icon on the back and white strobe lights mounted along with police-style radio antennas, pulled up on the driver’s side of the unmarked car and started to nudge his car towards it.

Smith was wearing clothing similar to a police training uniform, a dark polo shirt with 511-style cargo khaki pants and black boots. He wore a Glock pistol in a belt holster, along with a spare ammunition magazine and handcuffs in a holster. He also had his security badge on his belt.

On Wednesday, Smith was charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer and impersonating a public officer or employee

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