Authorities arrested a man who pretended to be an officer and pulled over two drivers in Brick on Sunday, police said.

Kenneth Murphy, 56, of Brick, was charged with two counts of impersonating a police officer after he stopped one woman on Barberry Lane and another outside of a Wawa on Brick Boulevard.

In one of the incidents, Murphy followed a woman into a Wawa parking lot and activated blue and red emergency lights before telling her he was an off-duty officer, police said. The woman went into the store and told the staff she believed Murphy was impersonating an officer, but he continued to linger around her car while talking into a small, two-way radio, police said.

When she exited the store, Murphy told the woman he was calling for back-up, police said.

“The victim responded that she would call 9-1-1, at which point the suspect got back into the pickup and drove away,” Brick police said in a news release.

Details of the incident circulated on Facebook, leading to the discovery of the second victim who was approached by Murphy the same day less than a mile away, authorities said.

Police are encouraging anyone who was approached in this manner to contact Brick Det. Bob Shepherd at 732-262-1121.

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