Portland security guard charged with police impersonation after pointing gun at women
PORTLAND, Ore. Aug 2 2018 A security guard driving a “beat up car” is charged with impersonating a Portland Police officer, among other things, after he allegedly confronted two women who were looking to go to the bathroom on the side of a Southeast Portland road, pulled out a police vest and pointed a black handgun at them.
Ibrahim Seraphin, 20, is facing two counts of criminal impersonation of a police officer and two counts of menacing, according to court documents filed in Multnomah County on Monday. He was released from custody on Tuesday.
The incident, according to a probable cause affidavit, happened after 3 a.m. on Sunday. Two women told a Portland Police officer that they had left a nearby bar when one of them had to go to the bathroom, forcing them to pull over in the area of Southeast 122nd Avenue and Southeast Market Street. While one of the women was looking for a place to go to the bathroom, Seraphin, according to court documents, pulled up behind them in a “beat up car.” One woman said the car had been following them.
Upon parking, Seraphin got out and told them women what they were doing was illegal. That’s when Seraphin, not in police uniform, identified himself as a Portland Police officer, according to documents. Citing his vehicle and his lack of a uniform, the women questioned if he was telling the truth. That’s when court documents said he opened up his trunk, pulled out a body armor vest with the word “police” on it and a black handgun, later identified as an exact replica of a Glock 17.
Seraphin, according to the affidavit, “swung” the handgun at the two women and pointed at them.
Eventually, Seraphin got on the phone and said he was talking with other officers. After a while, the two women got in their and drove away because “no other actual police cars were showing up.”
Seraphin admitted to showing the police vest but not the gun. Officers later searched his vehicle and found both the vest and the gun.
Seraphin told police he was a security officer who is in the hiring process for a police officer position out of state. His security guard certification constricts him to being unarmed.
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