If you’re going to say you’re a cop, you better be able to back it up.
Unfortunately for Jefrey Scott Schultz, not only did he lack proof he was an officer, his lie landed him in jail.
Dashcam video shows Schultz’s car zoom past a stopped school bus Wednesday as it let children off at the stop on the 5000 block of Buford Highway in Chamblee, police said.
A parked police officer saw the incident and pulled over Schultz, who immediately started speaking in police jargon.
“The driver asked for professional courtesy,” Doraville police spokesman Officer Gene Callaway said. “When asked which agency the driver worked for, he refused to answer.”
Schultz, 49, went on to tell the officer he’d “written tons of those tickets, but wouldn’t say who he worked for,” according to a warrant. He said he didn’t want to announce his department on tape. The officer asked for a department ID, but Schultz didn’t have one, so he was given a citation.
Turns out Schultz was fired from the Hapeville police department in 2007.
He was arrested Thursday at his home in Cobb County on charges of impersonating an officer and failure to stop for a school bus. He bonded out of jail Friday.
“If you present yourself to anyone as a police officer, you had better be able to back up the claim,” Callaway said.
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