Yokohama security guard suspected of impersonating policeman

YOKOHAMA — Police sent papers Friday to prosecutors on a 27-year-old security guard in Yokohama for allegedly forging a police ID and creating a fake patrol car in order to pretend to be a policeman, police officials said. The man is suspected of stopping a car on a state road in Yokohama's Asahi Ward and asking the person inside to show him his driver's license last September.

At the time, the man wore a uniform and drove a car to which he added a red flashing light and a siren to make it seem to be a police car, the officials said. The man is also suspected of questioning people living in Yokohama's Midori Ward. He was charged with forgery of an official document for allegedly buying a fake police ID apparently via Internet auction in 2002 and customizing it to make it his own using a computer."