{"id":83673,"date":"2018-12-22T15:26:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T19:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83673"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:42:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:42:58","slug":"mitchell-shoemaker-charged-for-impersonating-hans-gruber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83673","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Shoemaker charged for impersonating Hans Gruber"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/24f526d9-49f0-4813-9239-1848eb409074_750x422.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-83674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/24f526d9-49f0-4813-9239-1848eb409074_750x422-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/24f526d9-49f0-4813-9239-1848eb409074_750x422-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/24f526d9-49f0-4813-9239-1848eb409074_750x422-263x333.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/24f526d9-49f0-4813-9239-1848eb409074_750x422.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Cypress man has been arrested for impersonating a federal agent in order to train real police officers.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Gregory Shoemaker, 31, has been charged in federal court. He is accused of impersonating a Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) special agent.<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal complaint, Shoemaker solicited police officers at a private, law enforcement-only gun range in Magnolia, telling them he could train them.<\/p>\n<p>In a sting on Tuesday, undercover DSS special agents took him up on it. Court records say he wore a badge and a tactical vest with &#8220;POLICE&#8221; on it and told them DSS recruited him based on his experience as a U.S. Navy SEAL.<\/p>\n<p>However, during his arrest, he said he was really a CIA agent &#8220;on covert assignment to DSS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His girlfriend told officers Shoemaker had numerous guns and badges. Neighbors say authorities raided his townhome on Mill Ridge in Cypress Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Shoemaker remains in custody. He was already on deferred adjudication in Harris County on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which prohibits him from possessing a firearm.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=4939836\" width=\"476\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/man-accused-of-posing-as-federal-agent-to-train-officers\/4939466\/\">Cypress man Mitchell Shoemaker charged for impersonating federal agent | abc13.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cypress man has been arrested for impersonating a federal agent in order to train real &hellip; <a title=\"Mitchell Shoemaker charged for impersonating Hans Gruber\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83673\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mitchell Shoemaker charged for impersonating Hans Gruber<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":83674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}