PECULIAR, Mo. (AP) - A suburban Kansas City man has been charged with impersonating an officer after two separate incidents earlier this week, including one that authorities say featured an armed confrontation with a shotgun-toting teenager.
Beaudonavan Martin Jr., 21, of Peculiar, also is facing two felony counts of unlawful use of a weapon after victims in both cases said the man who pulled them over Tuesday night was brandishing a handgun.
In the first incident, a man told police the suspect was "cussing and very angry" during the encounter.
In the second, a teenage couple driving south of Kansas City thought something was wrong when a car came up close behind them and started flashing its lights, so they called a friend and asked him to have a shotgun ready in case there was trouble, The Kansas City Star reported (http://bit.ly/15gPxoR ).
When they arrived at the friend's location, the victims said the man following them got out of his vehicle holding a handgun and flashlight. He ordered the teen with the shotgun to drop it.
The victims said the man told them he was a deputy sheriff and they were in trouble for their driving, but he didn't have a badge or other identification to show them.
The suspect holstered his handgun after the teen put the shotgun down, then told the mother of one of the teens - who had come out to see what was going on - that she was lucky her son wasn't dead, court documents show.
Martin later denied to investigators that he was involved in the stops, but admitted he wanted to be a "cop," according to the documents. He said his father was a deputy in California and he "knew how things worked."
Online court records do not indicate whether Martin has obtained an attorney.