Repo man poses as cop to collect car, gets arrested, Mobile police say

By Jillian Kramer

January 29, 2010, 9:51AM

View full sizeCarlos Black: Seen in police booking photo after 2007 arrest. Police now allege that Black posed as a Mobile police officer while working as a repo man trying to collect a car.MOBILE, Ala. -- A self-employed repossession agent was dressed as a police officer when he forcibly confiscated a vehicle Monday afternoon from a southwest Mobile resident, police said.

Officers arrested the alleged impersonator, 24-year-old Carlos Black, Wednesday afternoon.

Black arrived at the Boykin Road home wearing a brown shirt adorned with a star crest and the word "officer" scrolled on its back and front, and a metal badge slung around his neck, according to police spokesman Officer Ron Wallace.

He told the woman who owned the 2003 Cadillac that he was a "city cop," according to the victim's statement to police, and asked her to get out of the sedan.

Wallace said that when the agent couldn't convince the woman to leave her car, he pulled her from the sedan and onto the ground by her feet.

The woman, Wallace said, suffered minor injuries to her knees. Meanwhile, the agent hooked the Cadillac to a tow truck and fled.

The car, Wallace said, is at the center of a bankruptcy case currently in court.

Police driving near Interstate 65 and Government Street on Wednesday afternoon spotted a car that matched the description of the agent's personal vehicle, Wallace said, and pulled it over.

Inside was Black, the owner of DAC Recovery.

Black was taken into custody and charged with impersonating a police officer. He was booked into Mobile County Metro Jail and was released on $3,000 bail.

Wallace said he was uncertain whether the agent's shirt or badge had been recovered.

Online court records showed that Black has a criminal history that includes charges of possession of marijuana, possession of cocaine, first-degree robbery, first-degree receiving stolen property and second-

degree receiving stolen property.

Of those charges, however, Black was only convicted of second-degree receiving stolen property in 2004, for which he was sentenced to two years on probation.

All the other charges, records showed, were not prosecuted.

Officers arrested the alleged impersonator, 24-year-old Carlos Black, Wednesday afternoon.

Black arrived at the Boykin Road home wearing a brown shirt adorned with a star crest and the word "officer" scrolled on its back and front, and a metal badge slung around his neck, according to police spokesman Officer Ron Wallace.

He told the woman who owned the 2003 Cadillac that he was a "city cop," according to the victim's statement to police, and asked her to get out of the sedan.

Wallace said that when the agent couldn't convince the woman to leave her car, he pulled her from the sedan and onto the ground by her feet.

The woman, Wallace said, suffered minor injuries to her knees. Meanwhile, the agent hooked the Cadillac to a tow truck and fled.

The car, Wallace said, is at the center of a bankruptcy case currently in court.

Police driving near Interstate 65 and Government Street on Wednesday afternoon spotted a car that matched the description of the agent's personal vehicle, Wallace said, and pulled it over.

Inside was Black, the owner of DAC Recovery.

Black was taken into custody and charged with impersonating a police officer. He was booked into Mobile County Metro Jail and was released on $3,000 bail.

Wallace said he was uncertain whether the agent's shirt or badge had been recovered.

Online court records showed that Black has a criminal history that includes charges of possession of marijuana, possession of cocaine, first-degree robbery, first-degree receiving stolen property and second-

degree receiving stolen property.

Of those charges, however, Black was only convicted of second-degree receiving stolen property in 2004, for which he was sentenced to two years on probation.

All the other charges, records showed, were not prosecuted.