Officer Can't Control His Own Son

The son of a BSO deputy was arrested on Tuesday, charged with pretending to be a law enforcement officer.

It's bad enough when a son takes dad's car out for a joy ride, without asking.

But when the dad is a Broward sheriff's deputy and the car is an unmarked patrol vehicle, the son could face more than grounding.

Tuesday night, Myko Coker, 18, of Sunrise, was in Broward County's main jail, facing grand theft auto and impersonating a law enforcement officer charges.

Here is how police described what happened:

At about 4:30 a.m., a call came into the Sunrise Police Department saying an unmarked police car was making traffic stops near the corner of University Drive and West Oakland Park Boulevard.

There, a Sunrise officer found someone wearing a BSO T-shirt and driving an unmarked police car. There was a passenger in the car.

The driver told the officer he was a BSO deputy and that he was driving home from work when someone cut him off and he pulled the car over, according to Sunrise police spokesman Capt. Robert Voss.

The name he gave was his father's, who is a deputy with the sheriff's office.

The Sunrise officer allowed Coker to leave.

But moments later, the officer saw the unmarked car again. With emergency lights on, the car pulled into a parking lot in the 4500 block of North University Drive, then pulled out and headed west on Northwest 44th Street.

The Sunrise officer turned on his own lights and went after the unmarked car. But the BSO car kept going.

The Sunrise officer turned on his siren.

The BSO cruiser pulled over.

This time, the Sunrise officer asked Coker to show proof he was a deputy.

But Coker had no badge, Voss said.

''He went to the deputy's house that was being impersonated, knocked on the door and asked him where was his car,'' Voss said.

'He looked outside and said `Uh oh, where's my car?' ''

The deputy's name wasn't released.

The passenger wasn't charged, Voss said.

''The deputy's son did something really foolish, and now they're going to have to deal with it as a family,'' said BSO spokesman Jim Leljedal.