Maserati Patrol Car: The Latest Cop Car Running Around In Massachusetts?


Is a Maserati patrol car running around the roads of Massachusetts? It may have fooled a few people, but it didn’t get past a local police officer in Braintree.

The Patriot Ledger reports that the driver of a Maserati cop car look-alike “was made to look like a police cruiser,” according to Braintree Deputy Police Chief Wayne Foster. The driver, who isn’t yet identified, had a Maserati that had the vehicle’s body painted black and white with a police-themed shield on the doors, as well as decals for 911. It also had K-9 and speed enforcement. Foster shares that the only thing missing from the imitation cop car was flashing lights on the top of it.

Officer Blake Holt noticed the sporty patrol car around 4 pm Saturday. He drover behind the 2010 model Maserati on Washington Street in Braintree Square.

Foster says Holt “didn’t know of any (police) department that had a Maserati,” so he lit up his cruiser lights and pulled the driver over.

The driver informed Holt that he felt he was benefiting police “because other drivers noticed him and slowed down, thinking it was a police vehicle.”

Police shields on the fake patrol car had the words of “Decepticons punish and enslave,” instead of the police motto, “protect and serve.”

The Maserati is an Italian sports car that ranges around $100,000 or more in price.

Foster says the driver is charged with impersonating an officer. He’s summoned for a clerk magistrate hearing in Quincy District Court.

According to New York Daily News, the photo taken (that’s pictured above) by Eric Clark,

Eric Clark, who took the photo of the Maserati, says he couldn’t believe what he saw when he first noticed the fake Maserati patrol car.

“I had to look twice before I realized it wasn’t a cop car.”

Impersonating a police officer in uniform or driving a car intended to look like that of a cop car isn’t a good idea. According to The 188th General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Section 33, the penalty is lined out for impersonating a police officer or any number of specifically named public officials listed on its website.

It reads the penalty for such a crime is:

“… a fine of not more than four hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year.”

The Inquisitr has additional reports on those who’ve been arrested for impersonating an officer.

[Photo Credit: Erick Clark via MSN News]

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