Family accosted by belligerent phony deputy who burst into their home

abclocal.go.com LIBERTY COUNTY, TX (KTRK) -- A bizarre crime has left a family shaken and law enforcement officers scratching their heads in Liberty County. Authorities say around 7:40pm, when a family was accosted by a man dressed in a Liberty County Sheriff's uniform after he suddenly walked into their home through an unlocked door. John Sellers likes listening to emergency scanner traffic. "Just see what's going on, because there's always stuff going on around here," he said. But he didn't need a scanner to find out the criminal activity going on in his own rural neighborhood. "I thought it was an April Fool's joke. I figured somebody's doing it to me. But then when I saw he acted like that I called 911," Sellers said. He called 911 because as he sat down for a cigarette, a man wearing a Liberty County sheriff's deputy uniform barged through his unlocked door and yelled at him. "Wasn't no joke. Scary," Sellers said. The man told Sellers that he if didn't report a crime, he'd be just as guilty as the one who committed it and then left. Sellers was dumbfounded. "Never seen him before," Sellers said. "I thought he was a police officer." "And then what made you think he wasn't?" we asked. "'Cause he didn't have the badge,'" he said. Not only was the man without a Liberty County badge, he was also wearing an old version of the department's field uniform. "We've changed to a blue uniform and we no longer wear the tan uniform like the suspect was wearing last night, except when you go to court," Liberty County Sheriff's Office Capt. Ken Defoor said. Defoor is a real deputy. "He did have a gun. He had a gun belt. He had cuffs. He was fully apparently dressed out like a sheriff's deputy. And that's what he identified himself as being," Defoor said. Authorities say the man was driving a black Tahoe-like SUV. It had no front license plate, emergency lights or law enforcement markings, and officials say they have no clue why the impersonator was bothering Sellers. "There was no indication as to why the man should have even been there," Defoor said. That fake deputy did have a name plate on the uniform that identified him as J.J. Edwards. There's nobody by that name in the department. Sellers says he'll be locking his door now when he listens to the scanner. to read more: abclocal.go.com