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Monday, November 23, 2009

Fake Police Officer Indicted

By Phil Parker
Journal Staff Writer
          A grand jury has indicted a Santa Fe transvestite accused of driving around town with a gun in his truck pretending to be a police officer, according to State Police.
        Lt. Eric Garcia said Randey Michelle Gordon, 60, will probably face trial soon on charges of impersonating a police officer, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and reckless driving.
        Garcia said that on Aug. 13, Gordon allegedly began terrorizing Santa Fean Ralph Lew-Lee on Interstate 25 between Eldorado and Old Pecos Trail.
        Garcia said Gordon was driving a black Nissan Titan when he began tailgating Lew-Lee and flashing blue emergency-style lights on his truck. The truck was also equipped with a bullhorn, Garcia said, and stickers that made it appear to be a police vehicle.
        Garcia said Lew-Lee exited at Old Pecos Trail and after Gordon twice got on the bullhorn, once to say "You did not use your turn signal," Lew-Lee pulled over, got out of his car and walked to the driver's side of the truck.
        Lew-Lee reported seeing a "heavyset woman" in street clothes who was obviously not a police officer. When the driver refused to offer any identification, Lew-Lee returned to his vehicle and called police.
        Garcia said Gordon was contacted by police soon after the incident, and said he pulled over Lew-Lee after putting the lights and stickers on his truck for the first time. Garcia said police believe that isn't true, however, because of numerous reports in recent months that a similar truck has been flashing its lights at drivers in Eldorado, and has also been seen pulled over at the side of Eldorado roads with the driver pointing a radar gun at passing cars.
        Gordon told officers he pulled Lew-Lee over because Lew-Lee had been speeding. He also told officers "that he dresses as a full-blown woman and wants to be called a woman as well. He was pretty clear with the officer about that," Garcia said.
        Gordon told police he was a formerly a police officer in New York. "He said 'I am a cop's cop,' " Garcia said.
        An investigating officer contacted the White Plains, N.Y., Police Department and learned Gordon was a volunteer auxiliary officer there in the 1980s, but never a sworn-in police officer.
        Gordon carries a gun in his truck and is licensed for a concealed weapon, Garcia said. Gordon also admitted putting his hand on his gun when Lew-Lee approached him.
       

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