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Haymarket Officer Hoffman catches police impersonator.

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Former deputy pleads no contest to impersonation charge
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By DANIEL DREW
News & Messenger
Friday, June 4, 2004

A former Prince William County reserve sheriff's deputy pleaded no contest to impersonating a law enforcement officer in General District Court on Thursday.

Christopher Gobie, 46, of 5 Shenandoah Commons Way, No. 203, in Front Royal, was stopped on Interstate 66 in Haymarket in April.

When officers approached Gobie's car, he showed them his badge and credentials and said that he works for the Prince William sheriff's office.

But the officers noticed that the ID had expired years before. They also knew that Prince William's newly-elected Sheriff Glendell Hill had only appointed a handful of reserve deputies.

Gobie was appointed by former Sheriff E. Lee Stoffregen III.

By pleading no contest, Gobie did not admit guilt, but acknowledged prosecutors have enough evidence to convict.

He will perform 100 hours of community service, a recommendation made to prosecutors by ......

Former deputy pleads no contest to impersonation charge
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finally!

Hoffman does something other than work security for ex cons and their poker games!

yea finally...

amazing... I happen to know for a fact he worked for 3 police departments, worked side jobs for any friend willing to help him out so he could support his 7 kids and wife. As well as being a full time father. And still has nothing to show for it. He is one of the most hard working men I know. He gets maybe 4 hours of sleep a day if hes lucky. And manages to keep us fed. I would like to see any one of you try it.

and the working for an ex con statement: I suppose he is should have run a background check on every friend or person he worked for? No wait..then you may have hung him for doing that too, it's illegal to run back ground checks for that reason.

Do us a favor and grow a brain.

Way to go Hoffman

What a coincedience, and to think that was 2 years ago too!

it's a shame...

one of those officers was fired for trumped up accusations and the other was let go by means of the suspension of the reserve force.

where's the good press on the other officers still in Town?

definition

define trumped up.what was he fired for?

The pattern of those comments does not now follow.

Do I need to post Ian Shapiro's written article in The Washington Post - paraphrased and quoted from Official Police Reports on this web page too in response to your comment about the "trumped up accusations".

I would head to Charles Town Slots for a night out gambling or Atlantic City or Las Vegas or North Carolina. But wait if I owned the establishment, at those locations I could legally take the "buy in" money. Even at those locations there are armed guards with badges who look after the house's money, usually kept in a brief case or other types of money bags.

Shapiro's article

Glen/Until...whoever you want to be today.

The charges against Hoffman, as well as the homeowner and other persons charged that evening have either been dropped, dismissed, or soon will be dismissed.

So, not too sure that the article Ian wrote will carry too much wait in the near future, but I'm sure he will print a follow-up when the time is appropriate.

Thanks.

thats 'weight' not wait

thats 'weight' not wait

And?

You really need to read my very first post to this townofhaymarket.info web site; its under 'blogs'. The third paragraph comes to mind right now.

As far as someone being charged with criminal activity, I can most certainly assure you that it was good police work and not some trumped up charges!

Assurance from a Reject !!

GlenP1,

The only thing I have seen, from everything that you have written here, that you can assure is that you ride around in your look-a-like police car looking like a reject. I guess by doing that makes you feel important and assured that if a Police Department (Like the one in that town that you kissing butt to) does everything by the book and hasn't made any mistakes or made trumped up charges. Oh that's right you should read my post thanking your "officer K" for the poor police work of not even writing the correct charge on a summons. Maybe you should hop in your "cruiser" and run code to the book store and buy a few for the town. Heck the Chief will probably even give you a red light, if he hasn't already, to use so you can get back quick to catch the Mayor before she tells another lie.
Hey Glen tell us the truth to the rumor .. do you really ride around with your dog in the back seat of your "cruiser" with a Haymarket shirt and hat and drive through the town waving at people so they think they have seen the Chief actually come to work ????????

Not a sermon ... Just a thought !!!!

what kind of backward bigot are you

The use of the word 'retard' is very offensive

Correction

Amused,
I got rid of the offensive wording. I am sorry I guess I should have been more PC.

get over it

So is the use of "vicious power hungry" and "liers". As stated in a certain letter sent out to the public describing my friends and husband.

But maybe retard should have been rephrased as "mentally insufficient", "Not too bright" , "Lacking intelligence", or "Unable to come up with posts that don't leave a person going what the heck were they thinking when they started typing".

good police work...

fairfax and their "good" police work...
find the article on their shooting and killing the walmart eye doctor while raiding another supposed "illegal gambling" operation weeks after.

Really, you people are funny. Notice how hoffman has been working as a police officer for decades and has nothing else that you all can make a big issue of. Am I the only one that sees the irony of all this.