RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN/AP) – A Raleigh man who pleaded guilty to impersonating a three-star Army general earlier this year was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with making a false bomb report, court records show.
Christian Desgroux was charged with making a false bomb report on Nov. 27.
He was also charged with misdemeanor impersonating a police officer, and making a false report to a police station. Those two charges were filed against him Wednesday.
He was arrested at 11:10 a.m. at a medical facility on E. Sunnybrook Road in Raleigh.
Raleigh police said he called 911 and claimed to a federal officer following a white Astro van with a bomb and 10 immigrants inside.
“I got a van here. They’re ready to take off. There are 10 illegal immigrants with a bomb on it. I’m going to follow it,” a 911 caller told the dispatcher.
The caller said the illegal immigrants are planning on taking the bomb to Washington.
A Raleigh police incident report shows that call was made on Wake Forest Road near its intersection with Interstate-440.
Earlier this year, authorities said Desgroux unexpectedly had a charter helicopter pilot land on a soccer field in Nov. 2017 at the sprawling corporate campus of SAS Institute in Cary.
Wearing a military battle uniform, Desgroux told a security officer who confronted him that he was there to pick up a female employee to take her to Fort Bragg for a classified briefing authorized by President Donald Trump, according to federal agents.
After he was charged with a federal count of pretending to be a military officer, his attorney requested that the 58-year-old undergo a psychological evaluation. A Homeland Security agent previously testified that investigators suspected Desgroux was mentally ill.
He pleaded guilty in June and was sentence to six months followed by one year of supervised release.