A man was arrested for impersonating an undercover officer to bypass a background check while attempting to lease a residential property.
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William Dennis Milstead, 64, was arrested after a real estate agency notified the Florida Department of Law Enforcement about his attempt to evade a background check. According to the New York Post, Milstead submitted a fraudulent letter in which he claimed to be an undercover FDLE agent operating “off-grid.” The letter contained spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors and falsely asserted that he was part of a non-existent group called the “Off Grid Command Unit.”
The individual requested that the agency waive the background check in order to protect his safety, claiming he had been employed since 2006 and was nearing retirement. However, his scheme was thwarted when authorities discovered errors in the fraudulent letter, resulting in his arrest. This was not his first offense, as he had previously committed similar crimes.
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“We ask that you make an exception to limit the background/credit check on William Dennis Milstead due to the security needed to protect our agent safety and rely solely on this letter of recommendation from the FDLE and State of Florida,”
He was previously arrested in 2002 and 2016, along with 13 prior felony arrests. Milstead was taken into custody on November 13 and booked into the St. Lucie County Jail.
