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Woman Pretends To Be FBI Agent To Get Free Fastfood Meal At Restaurants
Police jailed a woman in Georgia accused of pretending to be an FBI agent to score a free fast-food meal, saying she allegedly threat- ened to arrest restaurant work- ers if they didn’t serve her a com- plimentary bite.
Kimberly Ragsdale, 47, of Dallas, was charged last
week with imper- sonating a public officer following repeated attempts to get free meals at a Chick-Fil-A, according to a Rockmart Police arrest report.
Employees at the restaurant told investigators that
Ragsdale showed up at the location multiple times during the week and posed as a federal agent while driving a white minivan,
and also threat- ened to take employees into custody if they didn’t comply, the police report said.
It added that the
woman continued the farce as police arrived to arrest her in the restaurant parking lot on Thursday last week, report- edly claiming to
officers that she was an FBI agent and that her cre- dentials were electronic.
While being handcuffed, she
allegedly began to “talk into her shirt like she was talking into a radio telling someone that we were arresting her and to send someone to Rockmart PD,” officers wrote in the report.
“You will not hear a real officer demand a meal anywhere,” Chief Randy Turner told news outlets. “If it is given, we appreciate it. If it is discounted, we appreciate it. We will not ask for it or make threats and demand it.”
Ragsdale was jailed but released on a $3,000 bond, records showed.
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