A Louisville Metro Police detective stopped to help what he thought were fellow police officers executing a traffic stop, but he quickly discovered that the individuals weren't police officers, and this wasn't a traffic stop.
It happened late Wednesday night in the 3200 block of East Indian Trail, near Liberty High School. According to an arrest report, the detective was driving in the area, when heard "a loud commotion" coming from several vehicles in front of an apartment complex.
At that point, he saw several people get out of a black Ford Expedition and a silver Mitsubishi Lancer. They were wearing black-and-white shirts with badges on the left breast area. They quickly surrounded a silver Dodge Magnum, blocking it in with their cars.
One of the men, 25-year-old Charles Mullins, was pointing a handgun at the people inside the Magnum.
That's when the detective decided that the people in the uniforms and badges needed his help.
"The detective believed the subjects were police officers and assisted them," the arrest report indicates. "The detective believed the suspects were executing a felony traffic stop as they blocked both ends of the Magnum."
But they weren't.
As the detective looked closer at the uniformed men, he noticed that the "police badges" weren't police badges at all, and the uniforms bore the words, "repossession agent," on the back. He quickly surmised that they were not police officers at all, but were there to repossess property from someone in the Magnum.
After questioning Mullins, he was found to have a stun gun on his belt and a fully-loaded 15-round Glock magazine on his waist. He allegedly admitted that there were at least two guns inside the Expedition, one of which was his.
Mullins was arrested and charged with impersonating a peace officer, two counts of wanton endangerment and two counts of unlawful imprisonment.
But it's not the first time he's been accused of impersonating a peace officer.
In September of last year, WDRB reported that Mullins, along with two others, had been arrested for a similar crime.