Fake Cop Makes Traffic Stop, Gets Arrested by Real Cop

On September 9, 2019 Brenden Wysynski was out on patrol. He had an eBay-special Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office badge, handcuffs in his car, and of course — a handgun, fortunately in a lockbox under his driver’s seat.

But the 18-year-old parking garage security guard wasn’t at a job site. Wysynski was patrolling the highway. And when he “caught” a car allegedly driving 120 miles per hour using his invisible radar, Wysynski entered cool-mode, morphing his unmarked personal vehicle into a Police Impersonator Special. And then Brenden got to work, doing, well... who knows what.

Shortly after contacting the speeding driver, Brenden, wearing jeans and lacking altogether anything resembling a uniform, waved at a real Albuquerque police officer who was driving by. The fake cop's wave caught the real cop's attention, and he doubled back to see what was going on.

Rolling up on Wysynski, a variety of things struck the officer as highly unusual. When he ran Not-An-Officer Wysynski's 'unmarked unit' and found that it came back to Wysynski (and not to the government), the officer made contact.