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January 28, 2010
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Indianapolis IN Jan 28 2010 When two men were arrested after firing guns outside the Madame Walker Theatre last December, security guard Craig Regan told Indianapolis metropolitan police he’d be happy to fill out the arrest reports.
Regan, who wore a police uniform from one of Marion County’s small towns, phoned in his report and turned the suspects’ handguns into the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department property room.
But when the IMPD later tried to find paperwork that should have gone to the prosecutor’s office, they came up empty.
That led to an investigation, and police learned Regan, 36, wasn’t a police officer of the town of Crows Nest — or a cop from any other place.
But he apparently liked to play one in his security gigs.
Regan was charged today with impersonating a police officer, theft, criminal confinement and possession of handgun without a permit. A raid of his apartment turned up dozens of police goods, including a bulletproof vest, holsters, 12 police uniform shirts, police patches, boots, duffel bags, pepper spray, handcuffs, three handguns and a rifle.
IMPD spokesman Matthew Mount said Regan had tried to get hired as a police officer with the Marion County sheriff in 2000 and with Crows Nest, a tiny incorporated town on the Northside, more recently.
But Regan was dismissed as a special deputy from the sheriff’s office for a larceny arrest and he didn’t make the cut with Crows Nest because he failed firearms training in the academy. He was also dismissed at some point from a security job with the county health department for impersonating a police officer.
Detectives said Regan wasn’t the most egregious of police impersonators; he legitimately thought he had arrest powers. And he would have had them — if he had ever been hired on by a police agency.
“This isn’t a case where we have a guy who bought all this police stuff so he could go victimize people,” said Mount, adding that Regan could have legally bought the police merchandise. “But he erroneously believed he had police powers. He didn’t. He might have been deluding himself.”
Regan was charged with confinement because he might have handcuffed the suspects outside the Walker Theatre, 617 Indiana Ave. — that point is still being investigated — and the theft charge is for confiscating the handguns.
Regan, who wore a police uniform from one of Marion County’s small towns, phoned in his report and turned the suspects’ handguns into the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department property room.
But when the IMPD later tried to find paperwork that should have gone to the prosecutor’s office, they came up empty.
That led to an investigation, and police learned Regan, 36, wasn’t a police officer of the town of Crows Nest — or a cop from any other place.
But he apparently liked to play one in his security gigs.
Regan was charged today with impersonating a police officer, theft, criminal confinement and possession of handgun without a permit. A raid of his apartment turned up dozens of police goods, including a bulletproof vest, holsters, 12 police uniform shirts, police patches, boots, duffel bags, pepper spray, handcuffs, three handguns and a rifle.
IMPD spokesman Matthew Mount said Regan had tried to get hired as a police officer with the Marion County sheriff in 2000 and with Crows Nest, a tiny incorporated town on the Northside, more recently.
But Regan was dismissed as a special deputy from the sheriff’s office for a larceny arrest and he didn’t make the cut with Crows Nest because he failed firearms training in the academy. He was also dismissed at some point from a security job with the county health department for impersonating a police officer.
Detectives said Regan wasn’t the most egregious of police impersonators; he legitimately thought he had arrest powers. And he would have had them — if he had ever been hired on by a police agency.
“This isn’t a case where we have a guy who bought all this police stuff so he could go victimize people,” said Mount, adding that Regan could have legally bought the police merchandise. “But he erroneously believed he had police powers. He didn’t. He might have been deluding himself.”
Regan was charged with confinement because he might have handcuffed the suspects outside the Walker Theatre, 617 Indiana Ave. — that point is still being investigated — and the theft charge is for confiscating the handguns.
