SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) — State police say a man who pretended to be a state trooper running a drunken-driving checkpoint on a western Pennsylvania highway was drunk himself.
That’s why 19-year-old Logan Shaulis, of Somerset, remained in the Somerset County Jail Tuesday on charges including drunken driving, impersonating a public servant and unlawful restraint.
Shaulis faces a preliminary hearing June 9. Troopers say Shaulis parked his vehicle diagonally across state Route 601 and set up road flares about 4:10 a.m.
A motorist who stopped says Shaulis claimed he was a state trooper and demanded to see the driver’s license, registration and insurance papers.
Police say Shaulis tried to hand a BB pistol to the car’s passenger as real troopers arrived saying, “I can’t get caught with this.”
Online court records don’t list a defense attorney.
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