A Bibb City man was charged late Sunday with impersonating an officer, Columbus police said.
David Ray Spears, 32, was arrested around 11:05 p.m., police said. According to reports, he told a man and a woman on Beechwood Heights that he worked with the Columbus Police Department.
Spears is accused of approaching the couple that was arguing outside a Beechwood Heights home, police said. Wearing blue jeans shorts and no shirt, he allegedly had a black automatic handgun and told the man to get on the ground and the woman to get out of a Jeep.
The woman had been driving away in the man’s Jeep when it ran into a step, flattening the front left tire, police said.
Cursing, Spears asked the couple what was going on, reports state. They told the suspect they’d been having an argument, and he then identified himself as David Ray with Columbus police, reports state.
The suspect then walked to a home three houses down.
Police were called and the couple described what had happened. Two officers then went to the house Spears had gone into and asked whether he owned a gun. Spears told them he didn’t, police said.
He was then taken into custody and officers spoke with his wife, who told them Spears did own a handgun, reports state. The gun was shown to the couple Spears allegedly approached, and they identified it.
Spears told officers he took the gun with him when he approached the couple, but denied telling them he was an officer, police said.
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