Mount Prospect man charged with impersonating officer

A Mount Prospect man was jailed Saturday after officials said he impersonated a police officer and demanded to search a woman.

Daniel Feddick, 27, is being held in Cook County jail on a $100,000 bond for several charges, including false impersonation of a peace officer and robbery, officials said in court Saturday.

Police accuse Feddick of confronting the Mount Prospect woman sometime between 1:15 and 1:35 a.m. July 22 while she was walking alone down Elmhurst Road. Officials said Feddick was standing on the stoop of an apartment building when he told the woman walking by that he was the owner of the building and an off-duty police officer. When the woman didn't believe him, police say Feddick pulled out a tri-fold wallet containing a Cook County Sheriff's Boot Camp ID and flashed it to the woman. When she still didn't believe him, Feddick said he was working undercover because of a robbery in the area and demanded to search her, officials said. When the woman starting walking away, police said Feddick grabbed her, pushed her face against a brick wall and started to search her and her purse. When the woman grabbed her cell phone to call 911, Feddick took the phone from her, police said.

Feddick has an arrest record going back to a 1998 residential burglary in which he pled to a misdemeanor charge; the most recent was a 2007 arrest for burglary, officials said. The attorney representing Feddick said his client is currently working as a waiter and that Feddick was supposed to go into the Army soon.

The Cook County Sheriff's Boot Camp is a detention program for non-violent offenders between 17 and 35-years old, according to its Web site.

Feddick is scheduled to be back in court on Aug. 20.