Man charged with impersonating detective
Published: Thu, May. 29, 2008 08:34PM
Modified Thu, May. 29, 2008 08:38PM
E-Mail
Print
tool name
closeRALEIGH — Police charged a man today with impersonating a drug detective, court records show.
Not only did the man, Marcus Antonio Avery, impersonate an officer, police have also charged him with stealing from one of the victims.
Avery, 33, with an address listed on arrest warrants as “Anywhere Raleigh,” has been charged by police with one count each of impersonating a law enforcement officer, felony larceny from a person and felony obtaining property by false pretenses.
More Local & State
Investigators have accused Avery of representing himself as a drug officer to a woman on May 5 and then stealing her cell phone, police reported.
Police also have accused Avery of selling the cell phone to another woman, who called the police when she could not get the phone to work.
Avery is in custody at the Wake County jail in lieu of $21,000 bail, court records show.
thomasi.mcdonald@newsobserver.com or (919) 829-4533
Get it all with convenient home delivery of The News & Observer.
The News & Observer is pleased to be able to offer its users the opportunity to make comments and hold conversations online. However, the interactive nature of the internet makes it impracticable for our staff to monitor each and every posting.
Since The News & Observer does not control user submitted statements, we cannot promise that readers will not occasionally find offensive or inaccurate comments posted on our website. In addition, we remind anyone interested in making an online comment that responsibility for statements posted lies with the person submitting the comment, not The News and Observer.
If you find a comment offensive, clicking on the exclamation icon will flag the comment for review by the administrators, we are counting on the good judgment of all our readers to help us.
