KENT COUNTY (WKZO) -- The boyfriend of Artania Gordon, the woman charged with posing as a police detective in West Michigan, says she has an alibi.
Dever Jackson has receipts and claims there are others who can testify that she was in Ohio when the alleged crimes occurred in West Michigan.
"They say something happened on March 8th; On March 8th, she was in a courtroom," Jackson said. "On March 10th, we were in a hotel...they have her signature."
But Jackson himself was arrested for impersonating an officer in 2005 in Ann Arbor and again in 2006 in Kalamazoo.
The 27-year-old Gordon was formally arraigned Wednesday and ordered held on $75,000 bond.
She is suspected of approaching elderly people in Grandville, Grand Rapids, Wyoming and Portage, claiming to be a police detective and that she needed to search their cars or homes as part of an ongoing investigation.
Court documents claim she also asked for bank account numbers and website passwords.
Apparently detectives showed a photo of Gordon to one victim, taken when she was suspected in a similar crime 5 years ago, who immediately identified her as the suspect in the new crime.
She is specifically charged with impersonating a police officer to commit a crime, a four year felony.
