A Florida man was arrested final week after state police stated he pretended to be an undercover officer so as to keep away from a background verify.
William Dennis Milstead, 64, was charged with falsely impersonating a police officer, making a false assertion to acquire property and utilizing a two-way communication system to commit a felony, based on the Florida Division of Legislation Enforcement.
Milstead was arrested after an actual property company reported to the FDLE that he was making an attempt to lease a residential property with out present process a background verify.
Milstead submitted a falsified letter to the company claiming that he was an undercover FDLE agent working “off-grid,” which is why he couldn’t take part in a background verify.
The faux letter, which had quite a few grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors, was supposedly written by an assistant captain of the FDLE’s “Off Grid Command Unit” explaining why Milstead ought to be an exception to the actual property company’s background verify requirement.
“We ask that you simply make an exception to restrict the background/credit score verify on William Dennis Milstead because of the safety wanted to guard our agent security and rely solely on this letter of advice from the FDLE and State of Florida,” the letter reads partly.
It claimed Milstead’s employment started with the FDLE in October 2006 and stated he’s “three years shy of reaching his twentieth 12 months retirement.”
The FDLE stated Milstead has 13 prior felony arrests and was charged with impersonating an officer in 2002 and 2016.
Milstead was booked into the St. Lucie County Jail on Nov. 13 and was launched on Nov. 15 after posting his $11,000 bond, jail information present.
The case is being investigated by FDLE’s Orlando workplace.