A Savannah man went to jail this weekend for impersonating a sheriff’s deputy so he could go bowling. Jeffrey Eugene Ferguson, 46, pulled up to a gate at Hunter Army Airfield on Saturday and showed a guard a driver’s license that was cracked in half, police said.
When the guard requested a second form of ID, Ferguson pulled out a Chatham County sheriff’s lieutenant badge.
The guard called Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police, who responded and discovered Ferguson’s license had been suspended for failure to pay child support, according to police Sgt. Mike Wilson.
Ferguson, who was jailed on charges of impersonating a police officer, later told authorities he found the badge at a work site.
He told them he was not trying to get any special police privileges – just to get on the military post to go to its bowling alley.
