San Angelo Man Sentenced for Impersonating an Officer & Assault

SAN ANGELO – A San Angelo man will be spending the next four years in a Texas prison after he pleaded guilty for pretending to be a cop. 

According to court documents, on Jun. 29 at 10 a.m. Mitchell Glenn Allen, 60, pleaded guilty to impersonating a peace officer and assault that caused bodily injury to an elderly person.

Allen was arrested for the charge on Apr. 5. On that day officers with the San Angelo Police Department were dispatched to the 100 block of Twohig for the report of an assault. When they arrived, the officers learned that a man in his 80s had been assaulted by someone claiming to be an officer.

The elderly man told the officers that a man approached their home and demanded inside. Allen told the residents that he was a police officer and that he needed to get a girl out of their basement. When asked to show ID, Allen abruptly denied, pushed the man over, and then ran through a wooden fence gate.

Police found Allen a few blocks away. When they stopped to talk to him, Allen claimed that he was an officer working with the Municipal Court. That information was proven false and Allen was arrested.

In exchange for a guilty plea, Allen agreed to spend four years in state prison.