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HIS BOND IS SET AT $350,000.
WESH 2 NEWS HAS OBTAINED THE
911 CALL FROM A ROAD RAGE
INCIDENT WHERE A LOCAL MAN
CLAIMS A WOMAN POINTED A GUN AT
HIM ALONG STATE ROAD 436 THEN
FLASHED A BADGE.
POLICE WERE ABLE TO TRACK DOWN
AND ARREST THE WOMAN.
WESH 2'S BOB KEALING JOINS US
LIVE FROM THE SEMINOLE COUNTY
JAIL WITH MORE.
POLICE SAY THE GUN THEY
RECOVERED WAS LOADED.
YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT, ACCORDING
TO POLICE PAPERS THIS WAS A PINK
38 REVOLVER THAT WAS LOADED WITH
FOUR BULLETS.
INVESTIGATORS ALSO BELIEVE THAT
THE SUSPECT MAY HAVE FLASHED
THIS BADGE TO TRY TO CONVINCE
THE DRIVER WHO CALLED 911 THAT
SHE WAS LAW ENFORCEMENT.
ALONG STATE ROUTE FOUR TLIKTS
WEDNESDAY EVENING, A DRIVER
CALLED 911 TO REPORT A WOMAN,
LATER IDENTIFIED AS 29-YEAR-OLD
LACY PHELPS, THREATENING HIM
WITH A GUN.
ACCORDING TO POLICE PAPERS,
AFTER THE MAN BLEW HIS HORN AT
HER, PHELPS POINTED HER PINK AND
SILVER SMITH AND WESSON 38
REVOLVER AT HIM.
THEN WHILE STILL DRIVING DOWN
BUSY STATE ROAD 436,
INVESTIGATORS SAY, PHELPS
APPARENTLY WANTED THE VICTIM TO
BELIEVE SHE WAS THE POLICE
HERSELF.
IT WORKED.
WITH THE MAN'S TAG AND VEHICLE
DESCRIPTION, POLICE TRACKED DOWN
PHELPS A SHORT TIME LATER AND
RECOVERED THE LOADED GUN AND
CONCEALED WEAPONS BADGE.
SHE WAS BOOKED WEDNESDAY NIGHT
ON CHARGES OF AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
AND FRAUDULENT USE OF A BADGE.
NO ONE CAME TO THE DOOR OF
PHELPS'S CASSELBERRY APARTMENT
TODAY.
NOW IT IS A FIRST DEGREE
MISDEMEANOR IN FLORIDA TO
FALSELY DISPLAY A BADGE
PUNISHABLE BY UP TO A YEAR IN
JAIL ALONG WITH THIS AGGRAVATED
ASSAULT CHARGE.
SHE IS ALSO FACING FOR ALLEGEDLY
FACING FOR ALLEGEDLY POINTING
THAT GUN.
PHELPS IS FREE ON $5,500 BOND.