Overview
- Eric Baummer, 59, was arrested after an attempted Beltway stop that unfolded Tuesday around 4:40 p.m.
- Troopers say a black 2014 Ford Explorer used blue and white lights to try to pull over an off-duty member of military law enforcement near Washington Boulevard.
- The driver called 911, followed the SUV to a gas station on Hollins Ferry Road in Lansdowne, and troopers with Baltimore County police arrested Baummer without incident.
- Maryland State Police charged Baummer with impersonating a police officer and asked anyone with similar encounters to contact the Golden Ring Barrack at 410-780-2700.
- WBAL reported Baummer served as a Baltimore County officer from 1988 to 2002, and CBS detailed a similar recent Harford County arrest involving police lights and fake credentials.