An Edinburgh man was arrested after he refused to leave a woman’s yard and said he was a police officer.
Police came to the Columbus home just after 4 p.m. Friday, after a woman who was in the backyard with her children called to say a man who wasn’t wearing a shirt was on her property claiming to be an officer, said Lt. Matt Harris, Columbus Police Department spokesman.
The man, Gregory A. Simpson, 32, Edinburgh, had told the woman he was a U.S. Marshal and did not have to leave her property, Harris said. When police spoke with Simpson, he told them he had been a U.S. Marshal while in the military, Harris said.
Officers arrested Simpson on charges of impersonating a police officer and public intoxication and took him to Columbus Regional Hospital to be checked before transporting him to the Bartholomew County Jail, Harris said. Simpson was released on $8,500 bond, jail officials said.
