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Fla. Man Impersonates DEA Agent to Try to Score Food Discount

April 13, 2022

A 57-year-old man was arrested by Daytona Beach police after he allegedly pretended to be a DEA agent and argued with Wendy's employees over receiving a police discount.

By Brian Linder

Source pennlive.com

Police in Florida say a man risked it all for a discount at Wendy’s, according to a report in the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

The newspaper reported that police allege that Jesse Stover falsely impersonated a police officer at one of the fast food chain’s locations there in an attempt to get a few bucks off his order.

Wendy’s has some solid offerings, but it’s not worth going to jail over. Or, at least, it hasn’t been worth considering it since the old school yellow packaging because that Wendy’s was just different. Still, police say they were called out to the Commerce Parkway location after a report of “suspicious activity.”

According to the report, that “activity,” was Stover, 57, arguing with staff after asking for a police discount at the establishment. Witnesses reportedly said he even “quickly flashed a gold-colored badge” to the staff and “demanded the discount again.”

But his doubling down didn’t get him a Dave’s Double.

Instead, the reports said, an argument with the staff ensued, and he reportedly claimed then that he was not a police officer but a DEA agent. At some point during the fracas, police were called.

The News-Journal said Stover had actually been getting the discount, which is 50-percent off, at the location for “more than two years.” But, when he asked for it this time around, the manager on call shut him down and asked to see proof that he was a police officer.

The report said the badge he flashed was “a concealed weapon permit badge.” According to the report, and a photo that accompanied it, that type of badge does, indeed, look a whole heckuva lot like a badge that a law enforcement officer might carry.

Unfortunately for Stover, according to the report, he didn’t get the discount, but he did get a free ride.

He was released from the Flagler County Jail Monday, according to the News-Journal, after posting a $2,500 bond.

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