Kitsap County prosecutors on Monday charged a security guard at a local Salvation Army with felonies after he allegedly impersonated an Edmonds police officer at the scene of a fire last week in Bremerton.

He had even acted as a backup for another Bremerton police officer earlier at a 7-Eleven near the Salvation Army, according to a Bremerton police report.

Michael Scaletta Teates of Olympia faces charges of a first-degree criminal impersonation and a second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm with a previous felony. He had served half a year in prison in 2015 for a bomb hoax in North Carolina, according to the report that was included in the charging documents.

He pleaded not guilty at a court hearing Monday.

Scaletta Teates, 49, pulled up to a call about a small fire in a parking

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