DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) – A Houston County man is facing charges after allegedly posing as a state trooper and soliciting a ride to Montgomery to meet Governor Kay Ivey, according to Dothan Police.
Jason Russell Leverette, 52, of Pansey, Alabama, approached employees at a finance office in the Circle West Shopping Center on Tuesday claiming to be a colonel working undercover, and in need of transportation to the state capital. employees,suspicious of the claim,conducted an online search of Leverette’s name.
The search revealed a prior incident in Coweta county, Georgia, where Leverette allegedly identified himself as a U.S. marshal while approaching a Newnan hospital armed with a firearm last year. Georgia authorities afterward charged him with disorderly conduct, reckless conduct, and impersonating a police officer. The current status of those charges remains unknown.
Leverette is now charged in Dothan with impersonating a police officer.
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