Newly released body camera video shows what police officers discovered when they arrested a man for impersonating an officer last week.
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If News Center 7 reported this earlierSpringboro police arrested Dennis Meade, 52, of Middletown, on June 15 for impersonating an officer.
The body camera video shows what officers found in Meade’s car.
“He’s got handcuffs on the spotlight, radio, and I don’t know if the radios are working or anything,” the officers said. ‘It has zippers in the back, just like a full-fledged backpack. He’s got evidence-gathering gloves here.”
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Springboro Police Officer William Overholtz, working from an alert to local law enforcement authorities about a Chevrolet Tahoe involved in a road rage incident in Miamisburg on June 15, spotted the vehicle that same day while checking passing traffic, according to a police incident report. News Center 7 obtained.
Overholtz stopped the car in the parking lot of a Kroger gas station, got out and approached to question the driver, later identified as 52-year-old Dennis Meade of Middletown.
Taylor Robertson of News Center 7 spoke to a couple who said Meade tried to run them off the road on Interstate 75.
They told her the Tahoe hit the shoulder on state Route 741 in Miamisburg, “acted like it was a cop, turned on its lights and then came up behind us.”
Adam Hollon was in his car with Christin Hale and their two young children. He said they were driving onto I-75 and the driver tried to hit them several times. Hollon called 9-1-1 and got off the highway.
Officers say Meade got behind them and turned on what looked like police lights.
But officers and state troopers stopped him and found a gun, handcuffs and a siren in his car.
Meade is charged with impersonating a police officer.
