This article was originally published in The Examiner on Sept. 13, 2016.
By Eleanor Skelton
Staff Writer
On Monday, Sept. 12, the Jefferson County Criminal Court convicted Randall Errol Walker, 42, of impersonating a public servant, according to a statement from the district attorney.
Walker pled guilty and received 10 years. He had previously been convicted of the same charge in 2007 and 2011.
According to a release from the Jefferson County District Attorney, Walker used a handgun and Jefferson County Sherriff emblem to forcibly pull over a Beaumont resident on Eastex Freeway on July 15, 2015.
Walker told the man that he was a sheriff’s officer and performed a pat down search. He then realized that Walker was not actually an officer.
Two days later, on July 17, Walker entered a Dollar General store in China, Texas in uniform and told employees as a Jefferson County Sheriff deputy.
A clerk reported that he gave his cell number and told them to call him for “law enforcement issues.”
Previously in 2010, he told the hotel manager at the Microtel Inn and Suites on 73 in Port Arthur that he was a sheriff’s deputy and told her that she could rely on his services, according to The Beaumont Enterprise.
He also claimed to be an EMT.
Prosecutor Luke Nichols believes Walker “failed to learn his lesson from his earlier trips to the penitentiary,” according to the district attorney’s news release.
Both the Beaumont Police Department and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office investigated this case.
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