Halt in the Name of the Outlaw
Dietrich Jackson, of Newport News, Va., is accused of impersonating a police officer.
On March 1st, Jackson was allegedly involved in a shooting incident with two other men during a moving road rage incident. No one was injured during the shooting.
After the shooting stopped, he allegedly turned on a set of blue lights installed on his vehicle and pulled over the other car. When the men fled the vehicle, he approached the woman who remained, allegedly identifying himself as a police officer, and told her he would take her home. At the time, Jackson was wearing a bullet-resistant vest and carrying a handgun.
Jackson and the woman didn’t get very far. He was pulled over soon afterward for a traffic stop. The woman then asked for help from the officers in the marked cruiser.
Jackson was charged with abduction, impersonating a police officer, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and wearing body armor while committing a violent crime. He was also issued a summons for the use of a siren on a non-emergency vehicle, improper lights, and tailgating.
This isn't Jackson's first experience with impersonating a police officer. In 2007, he was convicted of the same charge and sentenced to a $101 fine and a year in jail. But after spending just one night of his sentence, he was released on probation.
Dietrich Jackson is currently being held without bond in the Hampton City Jail.
Makes sense, in a way: if a "year in jail" means "one night", he may as well push the envelope!
Source: Hampton Roads Daily Press
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Posted by Jeff, Northern California on March 18, 2010:
Is it just me, or does that light reflecting off the wall behind and below his right ear make him look like some sort of crumpled-ear humanoid alien straight out of Star Trek?
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It struck me as an earring at first, actually. -rc
Posted by Jim in southwest Illannoy on March 19, 2010:
I was thinking earring at first too.
Posted by Mike from Dallas on March 20, 2010:
Makes you wonder, doesn't it, if he was sentenced to a year in jail, WHO changed it to probation after one night in jail? It does help to explain the rise in mandatory minimum sentencing and other forms of ZT.