00:00Washington felon caught impersonating police officer at crime scene because if you're a fake
00:05police officer, that's exactly where you want to go. A crime scene where all the real cops are
00:10going to gather, right? He's got a firefighter helmet too. We learned today that Bremerton
00:14officers at first thought this guy was a real police officer who was backing them up on emergency
00:20calls. But those officers said small details didn't add up about his uniform and what he was
00:25saying about his job. Those officers at the time did not know this guy was a convicted felon who
00:31a judge said today poses a real risk to the community. You see it on the news every day.
00:36Most of these cops go on to be convicted felons anyway. So he had his dessert before he had his
00:41dinner. What more do you want? He was only supposed to be a security guard, unarmed security guard
00:47while he was on Salvation Army property. Salvation Army Santa Claus outranks this guy. He was out in
00:53the streets being a whole cop abusing authority that no one ever gave him assisting other police
01:00officers. That's where he messed up at because to everyday people, they might not ask that many
01:05questions as long as you look the part. But as for other officers, if you talk to them for more
01:10than I don't know, two minutes apparently, they'll suss it out pretty quickly. A Washington convicted
01:15felon, which is inaccurate from the New York Post because the prosecutor clearly told the judge that
01:21he does not have an in-state criminal history, but he has an extensive out-of-state criminal
01:27history. I Still Love You Post is accused of impersonating a police officer when he arrived
01:33at various emergency calls and authorities discovered he had a large amount of police equipment.
01:39Michael Scaletta Teets, Mezzy Scaletta, responded to an active police scene in Boomerton, Washington
01:44on September 5th, my birthday, where he wore a dark uniform with a tactical vest that showed a
01:51metallic Edmunds Police Department badge and police and SWAT patches, according to the
01:57Bremerton Police Department. So SWAT's going to answer an altercation at 7-11. It's Velcro,
02:03Mezzy. You could have ripped it off and put it back on when you got a SWAT-related situation.
02:08I thought you were like one of our detectives at first. I thought you were one of us.
02:11A Bremerton police officer told Scaletta Teets, police body camera footage obtained by KOMO showed,
02:18I know some of the guys with the task force. No, you don't. Scaletta Teets told the officer
02:23during his arrest, Scaletta Teets responded to a trespassing call. It would have been funny as hell
02:28if they would have asked him to name somebody in the task force and a tip about a potential fire
02:33in a parking garage, according to the outlet. I thought you were like one of our detectives at first.
02:37I know some of the guys with the task force. Michael Scaletta claims to be a law enforcement
02:44veteran. So I retired from Baltimore City after 27 years. Came out here. He said he worked for
02:50Thurston County, but then became a detective with Edmunds Police. They wanted to put me in the jail.
02:56I know a lot of detectives from Edmunds, from the gang network and stuff like that.
03:03So Bremerton is on the west side of the Puget Sound and Edmunds is on the east side of the Puget
03:09Sound. Actually, Edmunds is a suburb of Seattle. It's not like New Brunswick, Franklin or New Brunswick,
03:15North Brunswick, where there's some overlap and the departments are so close to each other.
03:19They communicate with each other regularly. These towns are 35 miles apart. So you can see where he
03:26can trick someone on the other side into believing that he was a police officer. Let me see your
03:31license. Now I know where you live. Give me money. You see what I'm talking about here? Or quite
03:36possible that he can pull someone over that's transporting meth and they blow his brains out.
03:41The perks of being a police officer. Police quickly figured out that Scaletta T2 drove an
03:47unmarked Ford Explorer with activated blue lights, did not have the extensive resume. He claimed
03:53Scaletta T2 claimed he moonlighted part-time as a security guard. You were only supposed to be a
03:59security guard at the Sally and nowhere else. When you clocked out of that job, you were a security
04:04guard no more until you clocked back in. You weren't even supposed to have a gun for the job or a gun,
04:10period, as a convicted felon and was an officer with the Edmonds Police Department in Edmonds,
04:15Washington, roughly 35 miles away from Bremerton, all the way on the other side of the sound.
04:21The felon introduced himself to the officers as Mezzi Scaletta. That was a red flag because
04:26they're asking him his name and he keeps saying Mezzi. Mezzi, Mezzi, who the hell is Mezzi? Is
04:30that your real name? You're trying to get familiar with me and I don't even know who the hell you are.
04:35We're on two different wavelengths and failed to provide his police commission card,
04:40an identification card given to law enforcement. He did not have it. Officers called the Edmonds,
04:45police department and discovered the staff did not know Scaletta Teets and claimed that he was
04:51never on their payroll. Can we not do this in front of every, I mean, really? Scaletta Teets
04:57asked while being handcuffed and taken into custody. What do you mean? Can we not do this
05:01in front of all the people that you lied and told them you were a police officer when in all actuality,
05:08you're just a security guard at the Sally? Not even a full-time security guard at that?
05:13The anti-narcotics training on base every year.
05:17Bremerton police say his story unraveled.
05:20Can we not do this in front of everybody? I mean, really?
05:23You're doing just fine. You can handle that.
05:24Okay, yeah.
05:25I appreciate it.
05:25No problem, man.
05:26What agency did you say you were at?
05:28Edmonds.
05:29You're with Edmonds.
05:29Edmonds.
05:30Yes.
05:32Investigators say he's not a cop, but was working as a security guard here at the Salvation Army in
05:37Bremerton. Witnesses around the shelter says Scaletta had been behaving bizarrely.
05:42He was intimidating last night. He told a couple of my friends to shut up and keep walking.
05:46Anyone with aspirations of being in law enforcement gets in pretty early on, fresh out of high school,
05:52fresh out of the military, maybe. No one wakes up at 30 plus, 40 plus after doing jail time and says,
05:58Hey, ma, I figured it out. I'm going to be a cop starting now, starting today. Snap the hell out of it.
06:06Who would want to be a cop in today's climate anyway? You're underappreciated. You're underpaid.
06:11Content creators make fun of you. It's more thankless than being the president.
06:16Police on the scene looked inside the windows of the suspect's truck and noticed that he may have
06:21been ready to impersonate other respectable jobs as well. He had a firefighter's helmet, but I'm
06:27positive the firefighters would have sussed him out really quick. Scaletta Teets was filmed in a
06:32separate incident responding to an emergency police call at a 7-Eleven and allegedly told customers
06:38that he was a cop, according to the outlet. You can see him in this clip of an officer responding
06:43to a real police call at 7-Eleven. He was talking to customers, and he told them that he was a police
06:49officer? Yeah. It was one of two calls that Bremerton police say he responded to before officers
06:54started asking who he was. We checked it. We call Edmonds, right? Edmonds says you're not on their
06:59payroll. Never have been. They don't know you. Is this guy going to jail? Oh, yes. Yes, yes.
07:06Of course, I love to hear your thoughts on this. I love to hear your opinions on this.
07:14If you want to be a fake cop so bad, why won't you go be a fake cop in Chicago? Why won't
07:19you go be a fake cop in D.C.? Why won't you go be a fake cop in Memphis? I already know why,
07:26because you want the fruits that come along with that image of authority that the badge
07:30gives you, but you don't want the price tag or you don't want the risk either.
07:36you don't want to
07:54have to be a fake cop.
07:56Oh, oh.
08:00Excuse me
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