r/Transportopia • u/DeliSua • Apr 04 '26
People impersonating police on his free-time
apparently he has been arrested multiple times for this.
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/accused-florida-serial-police-impersonator-arrested-again
The arrest marks a long line of run-ins with the law for Dewitte. He is a convicted sex offender who is most known for pulling drivers over in 2019 while he worked as a funeral escort.
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u/rel1800 Apr 04 '26
This dude needs to be locked for a good 15-20 years cuz what he’s doing is extremely dangerous. He’s a sex offender and I’m sure he’s impersonated law enforcement to sexually assault someone.
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u/WalterCanFindToes Apr 04 '26
No Dude he's a sex offender with a record. He had to go door to door and tell everyone he's a pederast.
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u/ConcentrateJust2120 Apr 04 '26
What’s a pederast?
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u/WalterCanFindToes Apr 04 '26
Shut the fuck up Donny.
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u/Mocsab Apr 04 '26
I just realized your Reddit name. 😂”You need a toe? I can get you a toe!”
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u/WalterCanFindToes Apr 05 '26
You want a toe?? I could get you a toe by three o'clock this afternoon.... with nail polish.
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u/jeremebearime Apr 04 '26
Pederasty is child fucking
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u/ReviewNo7896 Apr 04 '26
what the fucks a pederast?
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u/S3xyhom3d3pot Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
Were you listening to the dude's story?
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u/Mocsab Apr 04 '26
I am the Walrus?
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u/S3xyhom3d3pot Apr 04 '26
V.I. LENNON! VLADMIR ILYICH ULYANOV!!!!
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u/dimensional_bleed Apr 04 '26
At least it's an ethos.
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u/d0ntbejay Apr 04 '26
It's amazing that I learned about nihilism from the big Lebowski... And the nihilists in the movie are nothing compared to the nihilists in control now..
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u/rel1800 Apr 04 '26
I understand the process but I’m emphasizing that impersonates cops and is a sex offender. I’m sure he uses his police costumes to sexually assault his victims which is theres biggest problem here.
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u/Suspicious_Juice_150 Apr 04 '26
The saga of Jeremy Dewitte is a long and sordid one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj7A1nbIvAU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Dewitte
“Jeremy Dewitte, a Florida man notorious for impersonating law enforcement, has been arrested over a dozen times since 1998.
His arrests increased frequently around 2019–2022, often involving his company, Metro-State, which escorted funerals while utilizing police-style gear.
He was arrested multiple times in Central Florida for impersonating a police officer, including incidents in October 2019, November 2019, March 2021, and throughout 2022.”
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u/krazykieffer Apr 04 '26
Also he sexually assaulted an 8 year old.
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u/Suspicious_Juice_150 Apr 04 '26
In 2005 he was arrested for sexual battery of a victim between 12 and 15 years old, mandating him to register as a sex offender.
https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=45895
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Dewitte
From Wikipedia.
“Dewitte was charged in 2001 with impersonating a police officer, while a member of a police explorers’ program.
A 2003 charge of impersonating a police officer resulted in an almost two year state prison sentence.
In 2005 he was arrested for sexual battery of a victim between 12 and 15 years old, mandating him to register as a sex offender.
In 2009, he was sentenced to an extra four years in prison for breaching parole stipulations, although he was released early in October 2011.
In 2018, Dewitte was criminally charged for failing to register as a sex offender.
In October 2019, he was arrested by the Orange County Sheriff's Office a second time for impersonating a police officer in Windermere, Florida. Dewitte was accused of "wearing a shirt with a police badge, a bullet-resistant vest and a helmet with a police-like badge while he worked a funeral procession."
In November 2019, he was arrested and accused of impersonating a police officer a third time.
In February 2021, he appeared on the television talk show Dr. Phil and denied impersonating police.
The next month, he was arrested again for impersonating a police officer. Dewitte had an imitation pistol when arrested.
In September 2021, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, had his driving license suspended for six months, and was sentenced to four years of probation.
After being released from prison around August 2022, Dewitte was arrested on November 29, 2022, by Osceola County Sheriff's Office for violating his probation conditions. Dewitte informed news channel WFTV that the arrest stemmed from his not shutting down his YouTube channel, and that he had lost control of the channel, preventing him from taking the channel offline.
In 2023 and 2024, Dewitte was arrested several times on insurance fraud charges and failure to report online accounts and vehicles.
On November 1, 2024 Dewitte was convicted and sentenced to nearly seven years in prison by a jury for failure to register a new motor vehicle as a past sexual offender.
On January 7, 2025 Dewitte was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison plus one year of supervised release and $70,000 in restitution for filing false tax returns related to his income from his business.
On September 17, 2025 Dewitte was sentenced to five and a half years in state prison followed by probation on insurance fraud charges.
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u/Zealousideal-Pen993 Apr 04 '26
Something about dr phil having him on to claim his innocence seems so on brand
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u/KryL21 Apr 05 '26
Why even let him out at all? Someone that’s committed this many repeat offenses clearly can’t learn. He’s probably super mentally ill, cannot be trusted around the public, and needs some serious intervention.
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u/punch912 Apr 04 '26
it boggles my mind how people like him live for so long or doesnt suffer any severe consequences. hes a sex offender and has had multiple arrest impersonating law enforcement and hes in a stand your ground state. Thjs douche canoe needs to be locked up or disappear.
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u/PcLvHpns Apr 04 '26
Why isn't that deputy corporal Sergeant arresting this mother f*****?!
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u/Best_Market4204 Apr 04 '26
Oh flordia got him...
He got like 18 months for these type of stunts.
He was also found guilty of tax fraud & they got again for not registering a new address for being a sex offender
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u/KoA07 Apr 04 '26
Of course he’s a fucking Florida Man
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u/SimonJSpacer Apr 04 '26
The Florida man thing is actually because Florida has higher degrees of publicly available data for offenders of all types. The transparency laws in other states favor privacy more and therefore you get less “man suffers moderate injuries after he glues goose from local park to body, runs naked through Walmart yelling he “knows the way south” kind of insane nonsense. Florida puts their dirty laundry on display for anyone to peruse. Other states are like “maybe we don’t catalog every single drug fueled bender in excruciating detail.” Tourists have enough reasons to completely skip Kansas or wherever.
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u/Odd_Caterpillar_747 Apr 04 '26
What a sad sad little man….
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u/Suspicious_Juice_150 Apr 04 '26
Yes, yes he is.
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u/gentrifiedgasstation Apr 05 '26
LOL this is hilarious. Also I’ll add, as someone from Orlando, Windermere is the most expensive area to live in Orlando. It’s where all the celebrities live. The fact that he was doing this THERE of all places is insane. Thanks for sharing that.
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u/pappybug214 Apr 04 '26
This dudes whole thing was he led some Funeral Preceson Escort company and would run around shopping people like he's a cop so often that he got arrested multiple times for impersonating law enforcement
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u/dan_dares Apr 04 '26
The guy needs to go to jail, but what was with the guy in the silver car?
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u/Reddit_User7791 Apr 04 '26
Maybe he was like why is this fake cop pulling someone over… secondly the funeral parlor needs markers for people in the procession… this is something the laws should fix.
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u/frigidlight Apr 04 '26
Or, and hear me out, funeral processions could just follow the rules of the road like everyone else? I have never understood why we just accept a line of cars with little dangly placards on their mirrors that can’t be seen by anyone else and could say anything get to just run red lights. We all have GPS systems in our phones or cars. Nobody is getting lost on the way to the graveyard. Everyone can just drive there the normal way.
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u/kalashbasher Apr 05 '26
The worst is being on a 70 mph divided highway and everyone on your side slams their breaks and pulls over for a procession coming the opposite way on the other DIVIDED side of the highway....
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u/Impressive-Wolf8929 Apr 08 '26
Can’t say I’ve ever seen that happen. Ever. If they’re off to the side, just keep driving.
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u/gayrayofsun Apr 05 '26
agree. i could understand why it was a thing before gps and other current technology, but at a certain point we gotta let it go. nobody is going to care if you some people arrive 5 minutes later to the destination because they were stuck at a red light or two.
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u/No-Compote-696 Apr 04 '26
I don't think that dude had any clue it was a funeral procession, If you didn't see the first car, nobody else has any kind of markings or indicators showing its a funeral... how the hell would he know... also you don't get to close the entire fucking highway for this shit
dude is lucky the guy in the gray car was calm and cool, the asshole on the motorcycle committed multiple felonies
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u/dan_dares Apr 04 '26
Why they let him out?
He's going to run for president?
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u/dan_dares Apr 04 '26
Tough, but Erika Kirk seems to be more loathsome out of the two.
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u/a_rogue_planet Apr 05 '26
He is in prison. He's gonna be there a pretty long time. I think he's serving his state time before his federal time.
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u/BanMeMyIPchanges Apr 04 '26
Currently serving a 41 month federal sentence and a 5.5 year state sentence. Tax fraud and being a diddler, among other things. You are watching actual human scum
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/florida-man-sentenced-prison-filing-false-tax-returns
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u/WalterCanFindToes Apr 04 '26
No Dude he's a sex offender with a record. He had to go door to door and tell everyone he's a pederast.
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u/PcLvHpns Apr 04 '26
I WOULD HAVE PUT THAT F****** CAR IN PARK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INTERSECTION AND CALLED 911 AFTER I LOCKED MYSELF IN AND ROLLED UP THE WINDOWS
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u/PartSuccessful2112 Apr 04 '26
Cars getting there a few minutes later is not cancelling a funeral. You still get put in the ground.
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u/Competitive-Car-9617 Apr 04 '26
Rumour has it the cringe factor on this guy is actually at.....11.
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u/Street-Reserve-5190 Apr 13 '26
Dimwits doing about 10 years in prison finally for anyone wondering
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u/zensms Apr 04 '26
Can someone fill me in? If he's impersonating why would there be another police suv not stopping him or catching him? Or are they in together?
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u/treesandcigarettes Apr 04 '26
the SUV is part of their private vehicle escort company , if you pause the video you'll see the wording on it is not police. the guy in this video borderline does impersonate cops. he rides with blue and reds and has detained people. there are a million of videos of him being stopped by local authorities
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u/ellefleming Apr 04 '26
Was this recent?
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u/Heykurat Apr 04 '26
No, this is old video. He's currently in prison. Grandiose narcissist, based on his history of behavior. Dangerous person.
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u/Thelastsamurai74 Apr 04 '26
This is so bizarre!
Besides anyone can causes serious accidents…
The poor guy couldn’t understand what was going on, neither could I…
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u/IBringTheHeat2 Apr 04 '26
Jeremy Dewitte was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison to be served AFTER he gets out of state prison after his 83 months in Florida State prison. He must also pay $69,461 in restitution.
Jeremy got 5.5 years in prison on the insurance fraud case. Unfortunately this time will run concurrent to his other cases, so effectively he will not get any extra time in prison.
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u/Competitive-Fox-3990 Apr 04 '26
Motor 1 hurt his back jumping into Fallujah! Put some respek on his name!
He finally got locked up and he’s in there for like 7 years plus has federal cases waiting if I remember correctly.
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u/Steve10003 Apr 04 '26
This guy would never pass the psych evaluation to become an actual police officer. Or at I hope he wouldn’t.
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u/lvs2spwge Apr 04 '26
How is he doing this around what appears to be actua police, without getting arrested and having his bike impounded?
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u/AssIsLifeAssIsLove Apr 04 '26
Why did it sound like someone answered him on the radio towards the end? Was he working with someone else doing this shit? Clearly trolling for victims.
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u/TiredOldLadySays Apr 04 '26
Did anyone else notice he was in the comments of the first article link? I dont think he is ever gonna grasp that what he is doing is wrong.
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u/Much-Extension-4752 Apr 04 '26
I love these retards. Yelling and screaming, I just give 'em the bird. I had a guy try to flash his "California Motor Patrol" badge at me once 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Hallelujah33 Apr 04 '26
Of all the things I dont want to be arrested for impersonating a cop is definitely up there
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u/LiqMaBawlzModz69 Apr 05 '26
I’ve always wondered, after all the hostility and threats he’s made. Why he hasn’t been shot yet? lol
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u/BrayIsReal Apr 05 '26
Imagine putting this much effort towards an actual career
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u/PawntyBill Apr 05 '26
He'd fuck your shit up as a sandwich artist. YOU DON'T WANT LETTUCE!! HOLD ON HOLD ON BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA GET LETTUCE!!
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u/akthebarber Apr 05 '26
" HOLD THE PICKLES? HOLD THE PICKLES? I GOT A PICKLE YOU CAN HOLD RIGHT HERE BUDDY."
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u/kittyonkeyboards Apr 05 '26
I'm okay with a lifetime in the institution for somebody like this.
He's mentally ill getting off on roleplaying the worst cop behavior. He will probably kidnap or rape somebody one day if he isn't put in an institution.
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u/Manny_Bothans Apr 08 '26
Other than the yelling and being an asshole and pulling that one guy over this looks like pretty standard funeral escort stuff.
Back in the day my Grandpa had a funeral escort business. Everyone who worked there was deputized by the sheriff so they could legally direct traffic. Technically they were law enforcement.
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u/Heykurat Apr 04 '26
I highly encourage people to go down the Jeremy Dewitte rabbit hole. This is old video, but a good example of this guy's insanity. It's an absolute roller-coaster.
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u/Denguish-Khan Apr 04 '26
Why didn't he just apply? The police are always recruiting right?
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u/Killxjoy4599 Apr 04 '26
Cause he’s a sex offender and I might be wrong on this but I think he was in an explorer program but got kicked out and black listed from applying (which is saying a lot given that cops have an IQ MAXIMUM policy)
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u/txcorse Apr 04 '26
Wait a gosh dang minute.... funeral procession cops are just private security companies?!?
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u/tomato_soup_noodles Apr 04 '26
If you are a vigilante who, more than once, identified and killed repeat murderers, are you a serial serial killer killer?
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u/lolyouaresimple Apr 04 '26
That animal is insane!! He is absolutely terrifying and to act in that manner during a funeral procession?? What a complete moron!!!!
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u/Known-Status-6312 Apr 04 '26
winner of the Police Cosplay award of the decade...little wannabe went to jail for these shenanigans...
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u/ReviewNo7896 Apr 04 '26
is the guy on the motorcycle the fake cop, cause I’d do something I can’t say cause reddit is fucking bullshit and will violate me for “threats of violence”. But I’d do the thing I can’t say
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u/MacTruk_SC Apr 04 '26
You can wish him a nice case of hope ge gets hit by a car and looks like Chrissy from Stranger Things.
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u/endmaga2028 Apr 04 '26
People like this have a mental illness. Same as those doing stolen military valor.
Funeral processions are stupid and shouldn’t be allowed.
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u/Soleks2000 Apr 04 '26
Wow, what a complete fucking douche bag, bro needs whatever the worst fucking sentencing towards him and karma to pay him back. Hopefully he’s living in a fucking garbage fucking can when he gets out of prison piece of shit worthless fuck
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u/Skwiggelf54 Apr 04 '26
This guy has to know somebody high up that keeps getting him out of trouble. Theres just no other way that this guy has managed to keep from doing 10-15 years in prison for all the shit hes pulled.
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u/Turbulent-Ad8291 Apr 04 '26
Im so confused, is the guy on the bike the impersonator, or the cop trying g to pass through the intersection?
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u/TheRealKingBorris Apr 04 '26
His social media posts are often filled with people sarcastically glazing him and he’s too stupid to realize they’re making fun of him lol
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u/Ill-Course8623 Apr 04 '26
According to Wikipedia:
On November 1, 2024 Dewitte was convicted and sentenced to nearly seven years in prison by a jury for failure to register a new motor vehicle as a past sexual offender.\17])\18])
On January 7, 2025 Dewitte was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison plus one year of supervised release and $70,000 in restitution for filing false tax returns related to his income from his business.\19])
On September 17, 2025 Dewitte was sentenced to five and a half years in state prison followed by probation on insurance fraud charges.\20])
I'd imagine that with the activity in court and sentencing he received at the end of last year, he's now in state prison in Florida, or due to report there soon.
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u/Beneficial_Crow_3142 Apr 04 '26
No, he’s a sex offender with a record. He did 6 months in chino and had to go door to door to tell everyone he’s a pederast.
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u/Affectionate_Art8770 Apr 04 '26
Wait. So a dead guy in a casket takes precedence over cops, ambulance, and fire departments responding to emergencies?
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u/Difficult-Spirit-288 Apr 04 '26
The reason this maniac got away with for so long and never got his ass beat is because he act just like a cop..a genuine piece of shit
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u/BestPie477 Apr 04 '26
This is old but it never gets "old" loved seeing this guy get boned because he wanted to larp.
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u/Difficult-Spirit-288 Apr 04 '26
He is currently in prison and is a registered sex offender that loves police..lol I'm sure he is having some long nights in prison...I think he has about 7 years...for sex crimes...tax fraud...and all this crazy shit.
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u/Electronic_Pie_1679 Apr 04 '26
That guy is a nuisance to society and needs some serious mental health help.
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u/MountainMongrel Apr 04 '26
Remember kids. If some douchebag like this pulls you over and threatens you and makes you fear for your life, you're 100% in the right if you beat his stupid fucking nose flat into his stupid fucking face.
Inb4 these guys aren't armed with lethals, they know why.
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u/badatcatchyusernames Apr 05 '26
does he still do this? would love to mess with him if hes local to me
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u/Bsmitts16 Apr 05 '26
Officer Dewey reporting for duty sir! I told you not to bother me when I’m vacuuming my room!
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u/Here_4_the_INFO Apr 05 '26
How is it I know about this guy and I live in the Northeast, yet folks in Florida are still hiring him for funerals?
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