OCEAN CITY — A Pennsylvania man was arrested last weekend after allegedly falsely identifying himself as a police officer and threatening to shoot a man during a domestic argument between a couple downtown.
Around 1:05 a.m. last Saturday, Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officers responded to a motel at 20th Street for a reported assault in progress. The 911 caller reportedly told Ocean City Communications an “undercover cop” had intervened in the assault.
OCPD officers arrived and observed two males fighting and ordered them to separate. One of the males told OCPD officers the suspect, later identified as Daniel Creter, 24, of Stewartstown, Pa., told him he was a police officer and that he was going to put a gun to his head and shoot him, according to police reports.
Creter reportedly told the officers, “I am a police officer,” and “I just arrested him. He is a child molester.” According to police reports, Creter exhibited signs of intoxication. When asked to present his information, Creter reportedly presented a Baltimore County police identification card.
Creter told OCPD officers the victim in the altercation had provided a false name and that he had arrested him back on June 21. Creter told police the victim had been stalking him since the alleged arrest on June 21. When asked how he came into contact with the victim, Creter said he left a downtown bar and was walking back to his unit when he saw the man and tackled him because he had been stalking him, according to police reports. When asked for his driver’s license, Creter refused, and when asked for his full name and date of birth, Creter reportedly told the officers to “shut the [expletive deleted] up.”
More crazy shit they have to put up with.
So is he a police officer or not?