Tulsa ex-con poses as a law enforcement officer

Tulsa Police say a man used a fake badge, pulled people over, even handcuffed them, but he was no cop at all. <br><br>In fact, he's an ex-con on probation. News on 6 crime reporter Lori Fullbright

Saturday, April 10th 2004, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

Tulsa Police say a man used a fake badge, pulled people over, even handcuffed them, but he was no cop at all.

In fact, he's an ex-con on probation. News on 6 crime reporter Lori Fullbright says wait until you hear what she uncovered about him.

Sara says she dated Bryon Brown and believed he was a cop; after all, she met him while he was working security at a QuikTrip and says they rode around in a police car together, pulling people over. "He had radar, a cage, lights on the front of it and he had a video camera so he could record everything that happened in the police car."

Sara says she quit seeing Bryon in February and the next two weekends, he handcuffed her, put her in his squad car and told her she was under arrest. â€œHe's got a vest that says agent, a sweatshirt and hat that say OHP and a badge. It's a bounty hunter's badge, but he uses it as his badge." Police say the badge Brown used and his car certainly looked the part.

Brown claims to be a bail agent, but state records show that's a lie. He said he was a Wagoner County Sheriffâ€™s deputy, another lie. He was a reserve for less than a month until his background check showed he was an ex-con. He said he was an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper, but their records show that's a lie. Even said he was a US Marshal, again another lie.

But apparently he was convincing enough that he got a number of security jobs, not just at QuikTrip, but all over town, including Channel 6. We hired him through a security agency. He told our 6 PM news producer he was an OHP trooper and told our videotape editor he was a US Marshal.

The truth is he was a tow truck driver and he's been let go from that job, too. Brown served time in the state pen for writing bogus checks and is now on probation, his probation officer is reviewing his case.

Records show Brown was arrested last fall for posing as an officer and getting a woman to pay him $50 in order not to tow her car. In addition to Sara, police say Brown arrested another woman and even a man who's a former Tulsa police officer recently. He's out on bail.

I called his cell phone, it's been disconnected. Real police officers need more than a badge or uniform, they must carry a commission card. If you're in doubt, ask to see it.