A Miami-Dade man has found himself under arrest, once again cited for pretending to be a corrections officer. Erick Anthony Moore Jr., a 22-year-old resident, was taken into custody after deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office identified him donning a complete corrections officer uniform in the vicinity of the 6200 block of northwest 22nd Avenue, according to an arrest report obtained by Local 10 News.
The law enforcement saw Moore equipped with a jacket labeled "LT E Moore" and another marked "Corrections", the report indicates. Upon challenge, he claimed to be a corrections officer, however, could not produce a valid form of identification to substantiate his claim. Investigators have established that Moore is known to frequent the area, and was actively engaged in impersonating a corrections officer upon their arrival.
This arrest comes not as the first run-in with the law for Moore. Notably, he had previously been arrested after entering Miami's Palmetto Senior High School, where officers found him clothed in a corrections jacket, a traffic vest, and wielding a Florida corrections ID badge that was not his own. WSVN reported that during the January 2022 incident, Moore also had handcuffs, a pocketknife, a thermometer shaped like a gun, and two credit cards that were reported as stolen.
According to the charges laid upon him in 2022, Erick Anthony Moore Jr. faced allegations including impersonating an officer, unlawfully being on school property with a firearm, the unlawful possession of stolen credit cards, burglary, and the unlawful use of a police badge. Despite the layers of previous allegations, jail records now indicate he is facing one count of falsely impersonating a police or corrections officer. It was noted that as of this morning, he was no longer listed as an inmate on Miami-Dade’s jail website.
