Portland State Football Player Arrested For Pretending To Be A Cop And Pulling Bad Drivers Over On The Highway

TIGARD, Ore. – A Portland State University football player was arrested for impersonating a cop after a grand jury returned a secret indictment Tuesday morning and a warrant was issued.

He was booked in the Washington County Jail after he was arrested Tuesday.

Bacon is listed as a 6-foot-4, 295-pound offensive lineman on Portland State’s website. He transferred to PSU from Boise State after playing high school football in Oak Hills, Calif.

Bacon took to Twitter Tuesday afternoon to defend himself.

2 sides to every single story. Don’t believe what you hear. –Troy Bacon (@t_bacon50) April 19, 2016

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Troy Bacon is right, there are 2 sides to every story, people forget that. So we better get the full one:

Police said the incident occurred on March 22 when a Sherwood officer saw a parked Dodge Charger blocking a Honda Accord on Southwest Pacific Highway at Greenburg Road.

The driver of the Honda had been stopped by someone claiming to be a deputy.

“He got behind me and started flashing his beams and he pulled aside me and revved his engine,” the victim told KGW. “He was waving his hands in the air, said I was going 95 on the highway, and I was driving erratically, and I was texting and driving and all these things.”

The officer pulled over and saw a man, now identified as 20-year-old Troy Matthew Bacon, yelling at the victim, according to Sherwood police.

The officer asked if everything was fine and Bacon told him that he was an off-duty, part-time deputy with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Bacon then showed the officer a badge with the title “Junior Probation Officer,” police said.

Bacon’s Dodge Charger was a rental car with no emergency equipment or lights, according to police.

“I was pretty freaked out,” the victim said. “That was my first experience being pulled over and the way he was, his mannerisms and everything, it was really scary.”

Couple of things here. One, flashing a “Junior Probation Officer” badge to a real cop while driving a rented Dodge Charger: fucking hilarious.

Two, stop me if I’m wrong here, but they didn’t say that the driver wasn’t ACTUALLY going 95 and driving erratically while texting right? Like nobody said Bacon is lying or denied that was actually happening? So what I’m left with is, Troy Bacon, college student-athlete, while out driving on a crisp Spring night, sees a maniac wildly flying around the highway pushing 100 MPH while FaceTiming and SnapChatting and Instagramming, and pulls him off the road so he can no longer pose a threat to others? Wow, lock him up and throw away the key.

I mean did they even check his bio page?

This is the problem with the job market. Everyone wants you to have “experience,” yet they throw you in jail and hand down secret grand jury indictments on your ass for going out in the world and getting it.