Cobb Teen Arrested For Impersonating U.S. Marshal

AUSTELL, GA — A 17 year old was arrested early Monday morning after police say he knocked on a family's door and pretended to be a U.S. Marshal.

Cobb County Police officers were called to Poplar Log Place in Austell at about 1:10 a.m. Monday. There, the caller said she was in the shower when a man dressed in a tactical vest and tan khakis knocked on her front door.

The woman's teen children answered the door and the person who was there said he was a U.S. Marshal. The teens got their mother, who cracked the door open to see the young man get into a Ford Ranger and drive away.

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An officer who was responding to the call saw the Ford Ranger run a stop sign and stopped the Ranger. Police say the driver — 17-year-old Samuel Mallard — was wearing khaki pants, back boots and a black t-shirt with a Fulton County Sheriff's Office symbol on it.

He was identified as the person who had knocked on the caller's door. According to police, he told officers he was looking for a friend's house and provided an address that does not exist.

Inside the Ford Ranger, police found a black pellet gun inside a Blackhawk holster, a flashlight, a large, green laser pointer, a Motorola radio and a tan tactical vest that had front and back patches with the words "U.S. Marshals POLICE Fugitive Task Force" written on them.

Mallard was charged with running the stop sign and impersonating a police officer.

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