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.

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