Entries from Houstonist tagged with 'weylinspradley'
February 27, 2006
Weylin Spradley, who's been in the news for pretending to be a cop, has been charged with another crime: A Baytown woman claims he tried to force her out of her apartment earlier this month. Police said Spradley went to an apartment on Feb. 13 at 5:45 a.m. and tried to convince the occupant that she had no right to live in the apartment. He was wearing a light blue uniform and a gun belt,......
Continue Reading "New charges for erstwhile cop"February 21, 2006
Police have finally arrested the man they accuse of impersonating a cop — and they did it at the same bail bond agency he used to post bond Friday. Officers have been looking for Weylin Spradley for several weeks because they were concerned over his tendency to wear a police-style uniform and his car, a white Chevy Impala emblazoned with official-looking graphics for a fake security company. "I believe that [police] are just going after......
Continue Reading "Police finally catch fake cop"February 20, 2006
Weylin Spradley, who's been in the news for posing as a cop, should not have been allowed to post bail Friday, police said during a news conference today Tramesha Lashon Fox, an Aldine High teacher, pleaded guilty to insurance fraud for offering two students passing grades in exchange for their stealing and torching her car The owner of an ice cream truck was killed this morning when another motorist ran a stop sign or failed......
Continue Reading "News Roundup"February 20, 2006
Weylin Spradley, the guy who has been posing as a cop, turned himself in to the police on Friday but said he's just misunderstood. Police were hunting Spradley last week because he wears an official-looking police-type uniform and had his Chevy Impala done up with official-looking graphics for South Ridge Emergency Services, a nonexistent security company. The real police became worried that people might mistake Spradley for a police officer — yeah, ya think? Spradley......
Continue Reading "Fake cop meets real cops"February 17, 2006
When Houstonist was little, we'd sometimes pretend we were things we weren't — you know, an astronaut, the president, a race car driver, Dr. Quincy. But we never took it seriously (except for the Dr. Quincy part, but that's another story). Seems some people never really grow out of that phase, though, like Weylin Spradley, a 25-year-old Houstonian who is pretending to be a security officer. Not only does Spradley have a fake police-type uniform,......
Continue Reading "HPD seeks man pretending to be a cop"