MIAMI (WSVN) - Police have arrested a man accused of pulling over a real police officer while posing as an officer.

Authorities arrested 46-year-old Milton Morales-Perez and charged him with impersonating an officer.

Police said Morales-Perez tried to pull over a City of Miami Police officer for using her phone while driving in the area of Southwest Seventh Street and 13th Avenue in Miami.

According to the arrest report, Morales-Perez flashed a silver badge and told her to hang up her cellphone.

The officer Morales-Perez allegedly targeted was Public Information Officer Kenia Fallat. She was driving an unmarked car at the time but was in full police uniform.

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