A Georgia State Trooper may have unwittingly thwarted more criminal activity that what actually took place Thursday when he apparently scared off a man impersonating a police officer in the Gore area.

According to a report filed by the Chattooga County Sheriff's Office,, a Lakeside Ln., resident said she was traveling down Gore Subligna Road between 10 and 10:30 that night when a dark blue or navy vehicle behind her turned on a flashing blue light near Subligna Baptist Church. The woman said she pulled her vehicle over onto the side of the road and the vehicle with the light pulled off behind her.

She said a man got out of the vehicle and started looking around, when she saw a Georgia State Patrol Car pull out of a nearby driveway. The man in the vehicle with the flashing blue light also apparently saw the GSP vehicle and got back inside his vehicle. The woman said at that point she drove back onto the roadway and drove home.

The Sheriff's Department is trying to find the person in the dark blue vehicle who was impersonating a police officer but the woman was unable to much information as to the description of the man or vehicle.  Anyone with any information is asked to call the Chattooga County Sheriff's Department.