WASHINGTON TWP., N.J. (WPVI) -- A Washington Township, New Jersey, man is facing criminal charges after police say he impersonated a federal officer and entered a home under construction - while armed - during a property check on Wednesday afternoon.

Police said an officer was dispatched to a Strand Avenue home after a caller reported that the door had been left open.

Officers later learned the caller was the same man who met the responding officer at the scene, identified as Nicholas Cabral, who lives nearby and claimed he was a Homeland Security officer.

"He was in a marked police car with police lights on it. It was lettered Homeland Security, federal police," said Washington Township Police Chief Patrick Gurcsik. "It wasn't until they cleared the call that our officers believed the

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