The Florida Highway Patrol can occasionally find themselves in a situation out of a movie.
A traffic stop put them in a one-of-a-kind situation.
And Florida Highway Patrol troopers were stunned by one awful lie a secret agent told.
Florida man arrested for impersonating a CIA agent
The Florida Highway Patrol runs into all kinds of wild and weird criminals while keeping the interstates of the Sunshine State safe.
One arrest put a couple of troopers in a situation they had never been in before.
Jorge Alberto Alfonso, a 61-year-old who was born in Cuba, drove his white Ford F-150 truck past a Florida Highway Patrol cruiser that was on the median of I-75 watching traffic on New Year’s Day in Collier County, Florida.
Troopers were startled when they saw a woman in the truck “waving her arms, appearing upset or distressed.”
Alfonso’s truck had blue and red lights flashing on it.
The troopers pulled the truck over and found Alfonso in the front passenger seat.
“When I approached the vehicle and began explaining the reason for the stop, the male passenger interrupted, claiming his K9, seated in the back, accidentally activated the red and blue lights,” the Florida Highway Patrol trooper wrote in the arrest report. “He identified himself as a federal agent, providing a CIA Counter Terrorism Unit ID, a CIA emblem coin in a badge wallet, and an MI-6 ID.”
MI-6 is the British intelligence agency where the fictional spy James Bond worked.
The troopers inspected Alfonso’s badge and determined it “didn’t match known federal ID standards.”
He was wearing a skullcap in one of his pictures which is a violation of a federal policy.
The alleged secret agent also had a challenge coin that he claimed was an ID.
Alfonso was questioned about the specific agency where he worked and he only replied, “Federal.”
Pretending to be a secret agent does not pay as an adult
The troopers realized that Alfonso was an impersonator and arrested him.
“Based on the fraudulent IDs, emergency lights in a personal vehicle, and Jorge’s inability to verify his agency, I arrested him for impersonating a law enforcement officer,” the arrest report stated.
He was charged with felony impersonation of a law enforcement officer and possession of a controlled drug without a prescription.
Alfonso was taken to Collier County’s Naples Jail Center.
The troopers found passports including blank ones, firearms, prescription pills in unmarked bottles, cash, jewelry, various federal and international identification badges, bulletproof vests, and a pink backpack in Alfonso’s truck.
His legal woes are not limited to the authorities in Florida.
The Florida Highway Patrol contacted the FBI, Border Patrol, and the Diplomatic Security Service which all opened their own investigations into him.
Alfonso owns the Miami Lakes, Florida Air-Source International Corporation which does HVAC work.
“We demand honesty and integrity from our employees so clients are assured of predictable and conscientious building services,” Alfonso said on the Air-Source International Corporation’s company information page.
Playing secret agent landed Jorge Alfonso in plenty of hot water to start off the New Year.
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this story.
