Girl billed right after reportedly getting look-alike FHP cruiser

MIAMI — A female was arrested Tuesday just after driving a car or truck that reportedly looked like a Florida Freeway Patrol cruiser.

In accordance to the FHP, a trooper was carrying out a site visitors cease when they noticed a black and tan coloured motor vehicle with a lightbar in the heart lane of Condition Street 826 just north of NW 58th Street. The trooper also noted that the vehicle had a decal on the aspect that read through “FSO Guard” and yet another decal that resembled a law enforcement badge.

The trooper speedily finished the traffic end and pulled the black and tan auto around.

When questioned about the automobile, the driver, recognized as Lulia Pugachev, initially informed the trooper she was using it for a check travel. When the trooper explained that it was illegal to personal a car with the similar shade plan as the FHP’s patrol units, Pugachev mentioned she didn’t know that. She then adjusted her story, according to the FHP, and explained she purchased the car as is from a car or truck auction identified as Copart.

Pugachev was then knowledgeable that the FHP does not promote any of its marked autos beneath the same hues and they are repainted prior to marketing.

A verify of the motor vehicle located that it was past registered out of Louisiana and had no latest license plate. A passenger in the car or truck, Dmitry Pugachev, explained he owned the dealership and furnished the license plate that was currently on the auto, in accordance to the FHP.

When conversing with the trooper, Pugachev claimed she was the owner of a protection corporation termed FSO Guard.

Pugachev reported when she and her partner acquired the automobile for the safety business enterprise it was ruined. She explained they took it to a body shop in Hollywood to have it repaired.

Pugachev said she then questioned an automobile wrap business subsequent to a body store to wrap the auto in black and tan simply because she experienced beforehand viewed FHP’s marked patrol models and beloved the coloration scheme. When asked about the gentle bar, she reportedly said a mechanic at the boy store set up it at her ask for. She also had a siren set up at her request, according to the FHP.

Pugachev was then arrested and is facing rates of operating a motor vehicle with no registration, imitation on a Florida Freeway Patrol marked unit, and misuse of a seller license plate.