LOGANSPORT —
Two Cass County men were arrested Sunday after they tried to pull over another vehicle and stop walking pedestrians using red and blue lights they bought at an auto parts store, police said.
Michael Austin Conklin, 20, of Logansport and William Joseph Hudson, 28, Lucerne, were arrested just after 1 a.m. Sunday for impersonating a public servant. They remained jailed Monday afternoon.
Emergency dispatchers first received a 911 call at 11:38 p.m. Saturday from a driver near Lucerne.
He was northbound on Ind. 17 just south of Ind. 16 when a maroon pickup truck came up behind him quickly, turned off its headlights and turned on “blue and red strobe lights,” a court document states.
The driver was starting to pull over at the stop sign at that intersection when he noticed that there were two men in the truck and the man in the passenger seat was shirtless, it states.
The driver did not pull over and continued northbound while the truck then turned west onto Ind. 16. The driver turned around and caught up to the truck while calling 911, reports state. But dispatchers then lost the caller and the license plate number he provided for the pickup was not accurate.
Officers were dispatched to the area, and one talked to two pedestrians walking near the grain elevators in Lucerne.
They told him that a pickup truck had come up behind them while they were walking, turned off its headlights and turned on blue and red lights, the report states. Both pedestrians thought it was a police vehicle, it says.
The truck then pulled up to the pedestrians and the passenger asked, “Hey like my lights?”
One of the pedestrians told the men that such lights were illegal before the truck drove away, according to court records.
Cass County sheriff deputy Brad Craven later located a truck matching the pickup’s description at Hudson’s house in Lucerne, records state.
Upon questioning, the two men told Craven they had bought the lights Saturday night at an auto parts store in Logansport, hooked them up to the front of the truck and then went out to test them, records state.
Both said “they thought that since Auto Zone sold the lights, it wouldn’t be a crime to put them on the truck,” police said in the records.
Police took the lights as evidence.
Neither man had appeared in court as of Monday.
• Dustin Kass is associate editor of the Pharos-Tribune. He can be reached at 574-732-5150 or dustin.kass@pharostribune.com.
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