Akron police

Akron police seized 30 guns, 15,000 rounds of ammunition and three fake police cars from the Lancaster home of a man accused of pretending to be a sheriff's deputy in Akron.

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David Scofield

AKRON, Ohio — Police found more than 30 guns and three fake police cruisers at the man's home in central Ohio, according to Akron Police Chief James Nice.

Nice said investigators raided the David Scofield's Lancaster home on Thursday, days after Scofield tried to pull over an actual Akron police officer on his way to work.

Investigators found the guns — most of them automatic weapons— silencers, some 15,000 rounds of ammunition, fake documents that said Scofield is a police officer and fake badges, Nice said. They also seized his computer and are trying to track his movements from Lancaster to Akron.

"It concerns me," Nice said. "It would be very curious if this was the first time he's done this. We want to find out what else he's done. I suspect that he's done this before."

Scofield, 50, faces charges of impersonating a police officer and carrying a concealed weapon.

Scofield swerved in front of an off-duty Akron police officer on Interstate 76 on Oct. 13 and shined a spotlight into the real officer's car, according to police.

The officer contacted Tallmadge and Akron police who eventually stopped Scofield. Scofield told police he was a sheriff's deputy, police reports say.

An officer found a loaded magazine in Scofield's pocket, along with two loaded pistols, a rifle, a shotgun, silencers, ammunition, a bullet-proof vest, a fake badge and a SWAT shirt with no agency affiliation in the car.

Scofield's car is described in police and court records as a Ford Crown Victoria with a state-issued police front license plate with the "1-800-GRAB-DUI" number on it.

Scofield is a decommissioned former reserve deputy sheriff in Athens County. He was stripped of his status in 2013 after he was accused in in Fairfield County of impersonating a sheriff's deputy, according to Akron police and court records.