Upset after a car filled with juveniles cut off his car, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies said that a nightclub manager pretended to be a Florida Highway Patrol trooper and tried pulling over the car.

Deputies arrested Leonard Woods, 47, and charged him with impersonating an officer.

The victim called 9-1-1 during the incident. Woods was arrested later at his Valrico home.[private]

Deputies reported that Woods, who manages a club on West Hillsborough Avenue, was driving in Valrico early Friday morning when he was cut off by a 17-year-old driver.

Deputies said Woods followed the vehicle, turning a flashlight on and off and showing the driver a badge. Allegedly Woods was wearing a gun belt that has a handgun, handcuffs, pepper spray, flashlight and baton.[/private]