MIAMISBURG — News Center 7 asked for and received more than 90 minutes of video from a police body cam showing the moments a 52-year-old Middletown man was arrested and charged with impersonating a police officer.
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Dennis Meade also is accused of trying to run another driver off I-75 in Miamisburg on June 15.
Christin Hale and Adam Hollon, as reported on News Center 7 at 11 on June 17, said they knew something was wrong when a Chevrolet Tahoe pulled up behind them and its driver turns on what looked like police lights.
Hollon said he called 9-1-1 and got off the interstate.
Springboro Police Officer William Overholtz stopped Meade’s car and founded the man was carrying a loaded pistol and ammo. A search of Meade’s car also turned up handcuffs, blue lights, a radio similar to one police use car-to-car, traffic cones and more.
Meade admitted to police that he is not a police officer.
He was released on $304 bond in Miamisburg Municipal Court on June 17 on a misdemeanor charge of impersonating a police officer or peace officer.
Meade is to be arraigned June 26, according to the court’s website.
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