Renul Forbes Of Glen Burnie Sentenced To House Arrest For Impersonating U.S. Marshal

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Glen Burnie antheral was sentenced Friday successful U.S. District Court for impersonating a U.S. Marshal, according to a connection from the Maryland bureau of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Renul Forbes, 32, volition service 1 twelvemonth of location apprehension arsenic portion of 3 years probation and has to execute 100 hours of assemblage service, according to the statement.

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From January 2019 to September 2020, Forbes pretended to beryllium a “supervisory lawman of the U.S. Marshals Service and had a fake seal from the service.

On Sept. 26, 2020, an Anne Arundel County constabulary serviceman saw Forbes get astatine a Glen Burnie store successful a conveyance equipped with constabulary lights. Forbes was wearing a firearm connected his hep and respective magazines successful the mag bearer helium was wearing, according to the statement.

Forbes approached the serviceman and asked if helium worked successful the department’s Northern District and if helium knew a peculiar constabulary serviceman by name.

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After Forbes entered the store, the serviceman learned the tag connected Forbes’ conveyance belonged to a antithetic vehicle, the windows were tinted and the conveyance lacked a beforehand tag. The serviceman asked Forbes to place himself, and Forbes gave a fake name. He past told the serviceman helium was not qualified to inquire for Forbes’ credentials, according to the statement.

Forbes told the serviceman helium was a U.S. Marshal moving retired of Greenbelt and gave a fake sanction of a supervisor. A morganatic U.S. Marshal’s lawman told the serviceman Forbes was not a Marshal and his badge and seal were fake.

When the serviceman searched Forbes’ car, it had reddish and bluish constabulary lights controlled by a sheet connected the visor, escaped ammunition successful a backmost battalion and a handgun that was not registered to him. The conveyance recognition fig revealed the car was associated with a New Jersey tag, which was successful the car’s trunk.

Forbes antecedently told different Anne Arundel serviceman and a Washington D.C. serviceman helium was a U.S. Marshal connected different occasions, according to his plea agreement.

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CBS Baltimore Staff