The 17-year-old Sterling boy was driving through an intersection near Dulles Town Center about 8 p.m. Monday when an unmarked car with blue and red flashing lights pulled him over. The dark-colored Ford Crown Victoria looked like a police car, he told investigators.

The driver, a white man in his thirties, wearing some kind of uniform, approached the car. He asked for the boy's license, then asked a few questions, returned the license and drove away. 

The teen's parents called the Loudoun County's Sheriff's Office when their son got home. Loudoun County says it wasn't one of their deputies.

"A normal citizen through the Virginia state code cannot have those type of lights in their cars," said Sgt. Jeff Lockhart, with the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office.

Alan Moorefield knows that. He bought a retired police cruiser on Ebay.

"They strip all the equipment out of these cars," Moorefield said. "The only thing that's left is the spotlight."

Loudoun County investigators are checking with other agencies to see if it could be an officer from another jurisdiction. Even in that case, officers are required to call in to say they are making a traffic stop, so they don't have these kinds of problems.

"Anybody could be a victim in a situation like that," said Dana Casanace, a Loudoun resident.

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