San Gabriel Valley Tribune
GLENDORA, Calif. — A San Bernardino County Probation Correctional Officer will be spending the next two years in state prison for pretending to be a police officer.
Jane Robison, spokeswoman for the District Attorney’s Office, said Douglass Leon Weaver, 44, pleaded no contest on Aug. 16 to false imprisonment, impersonating a police officer, first degree burglary with a person present and assault by a public officer.
The same day he entered a plea, a Pomona Superior Court judge sentenced Weaver to two years, Robison said.
Glendora police said Weaver posed as a police officer when he pulled over a driver on the Sunflower Avenue offramp of the westbound 210 Freeway on May 11. He used a strobe light and bumped the vehicle from behind to get the driver to pull over. Police said he also had a gun in a holster on his hip.
The motorist, who had been drinking, was taken to his sister’s home in Glendora.
Police said the bogus cop told the victim he was giving him a “break” and that “this never happened.”
The fake cop returned to the woman’s home five days later claiming he wanted to check up on the situation.
Police said the woman became uncomfortable when the man barged into the home and began touching her arm and leg. He left when she told him her husband would be home soon.
Police said Weaver is not authorized to carry a gun either on- or off-duty.
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