Man arrested for ‘impersonating police officer and pointing gun at teenage girls’

A antheral has been arrested aft allegedly carrying a weapon connected a bid and approaching young pistillate passengers claiming to beryllium a constabulary officer.

The fishy was escorted from the Holywood bid successful Co Down erstwhile it arrived astatine Belfast’s Lanyon presumption by information unit aft it was claimed helium had ‘brandished the weapon, pointing it astatine staff’.

A PSNI spokesperson said a BB weapon oregon airgun was recovered during a hunt by police.

A 52-year-old antheral has been charged with impersonating a constabulary serviceman and possession of a firearm with intent to origin fearfulness of unit and is owed to look astatine Laganside Magistrates Court connected Saturday.

The spokesperson added: ‘As is mean procedure, the charges volition beryllium reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.’

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