Last Updated on December 25, 2019 by CCAR Staff
A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of impersonating a police officer on the 15 Freeway in Rancho Cucamonga Tuesday night, authorities said Wednesday.
Franklin Lopez Alas was driving a maroon 2012 Mercedes Benz C250 with after-market red and blue strobe lights attached to the front grille on the eastbound 210 Freeway, a news release by the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department said. At one point, he drove up behind an off-duty El Monte police detective in an unmarked vehicle.
Alas flashed the lights to indicate he was passing, the release states, and did so at a high rate of speed. The detective followed him at speeds of over 100 mph, authorities said, before pulling him over on the 15 Freeway at Base Line in Rancho Cucamonga.
Well…when you equip your Mercedes with emergency lights and then flash them to pass cars while going 100mph only to pull in behind an unmarked police car you can bet @RanchoPD will arrest you. Franklin Lopez Alas did just that & went to jail. pic.twitter.com/E9iZjnQNOD
— Lt. Casey Jiles (@SBCSDcjiles) December 25, 2019
An investigation showed Alas had a suspended driver’s license and his vehicle was impounded, sheriff’s officials said.
