(Scottsbluff, Neb.)- A 25-year old Mitchell man is jailed on a charge of impersonating an officer after a call from a concerned driver on Interstate 80.

Around 6:30 p.m. (MDT), Sunday, June 3, a motorist called the Nebraska State Patrol to report that the driver of a gold Saturn with Nebraska plates, was tailgating another car, flashing its headlights and showing a badge.  The vehicles were both westbound on Interstate 80.

A short time later a trooper stopped a vehicle matching the description headed westbound on I-80 in Cheyenne County. The driver of the vehicle Bobby E. O’Reiley, 25, Mitchell, was in possession of a security badge, along with a .22 caliber pistol and two cans of mace.

O’Reiley was taken into custody and lodged in the Cheyenne County Jail on a charge of impersonating an officer and no operator’s license. A female passenger in the vehicle was released.