Shoplifter arrested after impersonating Pennsylvania State Constable www.privateofficer.com

 

 

Moon PA Feb 25 2012 A Clinton man has been charged with claiming to be a Pennsylvania State Constable after he was caught shoplifting at Super Kmart on Market Place Boulevard.

Benjamin Sites, 26, was charged with retail theft and impersonating a public servant after police said he told Kmart management last month to “show him some professional courtesy” because he was a state constable, according to police records.

Store employees stopped Sites when they saw him attempting to remove tags from a jacket while leaving the store. Sites told store management that he was a state constable, but could not produce a badge or identification. He instead showed staff his permit to carry a concealed firearm.

Police said they could find no record of Sites ever being employed as a constable.

A date for his preliminary hearing in Coraopolis District Court was not available.