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JSO Tracks “Fake Cop” Through MySpace Account:
27-year-old Andrew Diaz of Jacksonville, Florida has been arrested for impersonating a police officer. It seems that he posted pictures on his MySpace of him in police gear including brandishing a gun and his ‘federal police car’.

Now before you get all up in arms about that these are just pictures of him on MySpace he was also telling other federal officers that he was a federal officer.

Jefferson says Diaz recently showed credentials to several Federal officers at the Federal Reserve Bank here in Jacksonville. Police say he told the officers two different times that he was a federal law enforcement officer.

“He portrayed himself as a fellow law enforcement officer…as if he was in the fraternity. Obviously this person has some kind of issues, infatuation of being a law enforcement officer of some type, but he took it to the extreme,” says Jefferson.

Diaz was a police officer at one time…

First Coast News has learned that at one time Diaz did work as a civilian police officer for the government out at Mayport.

Mayport officials say Diaz worked there for eleven months and was let go last August. According to the police report, Diaz was fired because he allegedly provided false information on a government report.

Most recently Diaz was working for an armored car service.

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