Police: Valparaiso man uses cell phone app to try to impersonate cop

Fabio Bindel provided booking mug. | ~Sun-Times Media

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Using your cell phone to try to play cop? Evidently there’s an app for that.

That’s what Northwest Indiana police discovered after a woman reported a suspicious car trying to pull her over Saturday night.

She told police a black Pontiac GTO with flashing blue and red lights at the top of its windshield tailgated her and seemed to try to pull her over about 10:40 p.m.

But she suspected the driver really wasn’t a police officer, so she kept driving and called 911.

When police later caught up with the car they found no flashing lights inside, but a passenger handed over a cell phone, belonging to driver Fabio Bindel, 30, of Valparaiso, and it had an application designed to imitate a police car’s emergency lights.

Bindel was arrested for impersonating a public official and drunken driving.

 

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All states have laws if you get caught by impersonating a cop you WILL go jail..  So dont play with these apps while driving..!!!

Here’s what a developer writes of the app:

Police Light is an iPhone application that simulates the blue flashing light used on police cars. The dashboard integrates a variety of sirens used by the police including:

• Wail siren Yelp siren Pier siren
• With a realistic look,
• PoliceLight comes with two light effects:
• Spin light Flash light

Its slider bar allows you to control the light frequency.Expand to a full screen for the maximum effect.

 

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OuttaMyWay!