$10K bail for man who allegedly impersonated a police officer

The Superior Court has imposed a $10,000 cash bail on a man who told police officers he was a police captain in order to evade arrest.

Nick Jones Jr., 26, is currently facing charges of disturbing the peace, assault, and impersonating an officer after he tried to evade arrest by claiming he is a former police captain for the Department of Public Safety’s narcotics unit.

During his bail hearing last Monday, Superior Court Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio allowed Jones to post 10% of his $10,000 cash bail. After the hearing, Kim-Tenorio ordered Jones to return to court on April 6 at 10 am for a preliminary hearing while his arraignment was set for April 11 at 9am.

Jones was represented by assistant public defender Karie Comstock last Monday while assistant attorney general Steve Kessel appeared for the government.

According to court documents, a disturbance outside the DPS police station in Susupe was called in last March 26 at around 10pm.

A responding officer met with Jones outside the station, who then told the officer that he was a police captain and was working undercover for the narcotics unit. Jones added that he had been watching two men with a hidden camera inside the air-conditioning vent of their car.

The responding officer noted that he observed a silver sedan and a gray Toyota C-HR parked nearby. The officer later confirmed that the silver sedan belonged to Jones and also discovered it was the vehicle involved in another disturbing the peace incident earlier that evening.

According to another responding officer, upon arriving at the scene, he saw two other men standing by the Toyota C-HR, whose trunk and doors were wide open. The officer said the contents of the vehicle were scattered on the ground and the rear seats had been detached from their factory position. One of the men told police that they had just left a friend’s place in Dandan and were headed to another companion’s residence in Chalan Kanoa. As they were approaching his friend’s residence, the man said the silver sedan stopped in front of their car and blocked their way before Jones got out of the vehicle and approached them. The man told police that, out of fear, he reversed his vehicle, left the area, and headed north on Beach Road.

However, Jones allegedly followed and continued to tail them while turning this headlights on and off. The man said that’s when they drove to the police station to seek help.

There, the man said that Jones pulled up behind their car, got out and asked, “Where are the three girls? Where did you drop them off?” The two men told Jones that it was just them and they had just come from a friend’s house in Dandan.

Jones told the two men that he was a police officer and he instructed them to get out of the vehicle and present their driver’s license. The two men complied and sat on the curb.

Jones then allegedly searched the trunk of the Toyota C-HR before making his way to the front seat, throwing the contents of the vehicle out on the street.

The two men told police that they were afraid of Jones and complied with everything Jones instructed them to do because they believed he was a police officer.

Police arrested Jones, who was then escorted to the Department of Corrections where he was booked and detained.