impersonator gets NO attention
How come this didn’t receive more attention?
08/23/05 KCSO Arrests Phony Deputy
The Knox County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man posing as a Knox County Deputy Monday, August 22, 2005. Twenty-eight year old Jonathan O. Bowman of Oakland Road in Maynardville was charged with impersonation of a licensed professional and was given a $2,500 bond. He was released at 11:30 Monday night after making bond.
Bowman is accused of pulling over a car with two people who had just left Cotton Eyed Joe’s Sunday, August 21st. According to the witnesses in the car, Bowman flashed a badge and told the driver to stop. After pulling into the Baptist West parking lot on Parkside Drive, Bowman said he was a Knox County Deputy working undercover and made the people in the car perform a field sobriety test and threatened to take them to jail. Another car with two friends of the victims pulled up, and Bowman made them take a field sobriety test as well and said they were all drunk except for one and she could drive them home. A security guard at Baptist also witnessed the incident and said that Bowman identified himself as a deputy. The victims also said that Bowman had a radio, a badge, and a weapon which he showed to them.
After the victims were allowed to leave, they became suspicious and called 911 to report the incident.
A special note: If you are approached by individual claiming to be an officer or undercover officer and you are suspicious, stop in a well-lighted area and ask the individual for identification. If you have a cell phone, call 911 and ask if there is an officer by that name.
Posted By Media Relations on 08/23/05 at 09:49 AM
[img] http://www.knoxsheriff.org/mediapics/BOWMAN,JOHNATHAN_51517_03-21-1977_Front.jpg[/img]



<< Home