Bremerton police arrested a 49-year-old Lacey man who is a convicted felon Sept. 5 for impersonating a police officer.

Police contacted the man who arrived at an active police scene in an unmarked Ford Explorer with activated blue police lights. The male subject identified himself as an off-duty Edmonds police detective and was wearing body armor with “POLICE” and “SWAT” logos as well as a metallic Edmonds police badge, per a Bremerton Police Department Facebook post.

After a follow-up investigation, BPD officers learned that the man was in fact not an Edmonds police officer, but was a security guard for a nearby business, and had been committing law enforcement acts in the downtown corridor. The male subject was found to be a convicted felon and when he was taken into custody, he was armed with a firearm and in possession of a large amount of police equipment.

The man was booked into the Kitsap County Jail for first-degree criminal impersonation and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.