A Fayetteville man has been

arrested for impersonating an officer with a badge stolen from a campus

police officer at Fort Valley State University, police said.

Eliseo Medina Harrera, 61, was encountered by officers responding to a

dispute Sunday on Hillsdale Drive, said Lt. Beverly Trainor of the Fayetteville

Police Department. Harrera had stopped a man who was repossessing a vehicle

that belonged to one of Harrera's family members, Trainor said.

Harrera told the repo man that he was a police officer for Fort Valley

State, and he continued that story to Fayetteville officers, Trainor said.

But a check with Fort Valley school officials indicated that Harrera was

not employed as a police officer, according to warrants for his arrest.

In fact, the badge Harrera displayed had been stolen from a Fort Valley

police officer who inadvertently left it on his clothing when it was taken

to be dry-cleaned, Trainor added.

Harrera was charged with one felony count of impersonating a police officer.

He is free on a $5,000 bond set by Chief Magistrate Charles Floyd.