Fake Officer Tries to Pull Over Vehicle in Wesley Chapel

A 47-year-old Wesley Chapel man was busted for playing cop.

Yordis Aguero Fornaris, of Penta Place, was arrested late Wednesday, Aug. 8 and charged with impersonating an officer and obstructing an officer without violence. According to a Pasco County Sheriff’s affidavit, Fornaris used his black Ford Crown Victoria to pull over a vehicle near Wild Taro Way and Curley Road after activating strobe lights and a spot light.

But the occupants of the vehicle fled and called 911 after suspecting something unscrupulous. A responding deputy found the Crown Victoria and Fornaris in the driveway of his Penta Place home.

Fornaris denied attempting to pull over the vehicle, according to county authorities. Fornaris began to yell and attempted to go inside his home. When officers held him, he “refused to cooperate or calm down” and was arrested and taken to Land O’ Lakes Jail, the affidavit stated.

Fornaris remained behind bars Friday, held on $5,000 bond for impersonating an officer and $150 bond for obstructing an officer without violence.