Plainfield Man Jailed For Impersonating State Trooper: Police

A Plainfield man pretended to be a state trooper in a bid to fool two men apparently affiliated with a Wilmington car dealership, police said.

Ross D. Ferraro Jr., 50, was hit with two counts of the false personation of a peace officer in connection with his alleged illicit playacting.

The criminal complaint filed against Ferraro said that, between Dec. 19 and Wednesday, he tried passing himself off to two men apparently affiliated with D’Orazio Ford dealership in Wilmington. One of the men is from Joliet and the other from Coal City.

But a statement released by the Illinois State Police claimed a trooper pulled over Ferraro while he was “driving a vehicle equipped to look like a police vehicle” on Jan. 29.

Ferraro was arrested, the state police said, and the ensuing “investigation resulted in the execution of a search warrant” at his home on Twin Falls Drive.

During the raid on Ferraro’s home, troopers found four firearms, ballistic vests, police badges, uniforms and two cars equipped with emergency lights, police said.

A Ross D. Ferraro of the same age was pulled over in 1991 and found in possession of a revolver and police badges from the Oakbrook Terrace Police Department and the Clark County Sheriff`s Office in Nevada, according to an old Chicago Tribune story. Ferraro was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, unlawful use of a weapon and not having a firearm owner`s identification for the weapon, the story said.

That Ross D. Ferraro Jr. is the son of the Ross D. Ferraro who was the village president of Carol Stream at the time, according to the story.

Court records show Ferraro Jr. pleaded guilty in 1992.

A woman answering the telephone at Ferraro’s Plainfield home declined to discuss the matter.

“I’m sorry,” she said. “We have nothing to say.”

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