CRANBERRY, Pa. (AP) - A former Pennsylvania county sheriff’s deputy has been charged with impersonating a public servant for allegedly using her old badge to try to get out of a speeding ticket.
Thirty-seven-year-old Amanda Barbish, of Greensburg, is also charged with speeding in the April 19 incident in Cranberry, Butler County.
That’s where state police say she was pulled over for speeding on April 18, but let go as a “professional courtesy” after she flashed a Westmoreland County sheriff’s badge. When the same trooper pulled her over for speeding again the next day on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, he confiscated her badge and ID card after determining she no longer worked as a deputy.
Westmoreland County Sheriff John Held says he’s investigating how Barbish still had the badge.
Online court records don’t list an attorney for her.
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