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Is that a selfie on your fake NCIS badge?

His gun is fake. His gold badge is fake. But that photo on Richard Fitzgerald's fake "special agent" identification card? That looks like a very real selfie.

Transit police say Richard Fitzgerald was walking along Aramingo Avenue, claiming to be a Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agent.
Transit police say Richard Fitzgerald was walking along Aramingo Avenue, claiming to be a Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agent.Read moreSEPTA Police

His gun is fake. His gold badge is fake. But that photo on Richard Fitzgerald's fake "special agent" identification card?

That looks like a very real selfie. Shot from precisely the distance between a grown man's shoulder and his hand.

SEPTA police officers arrested Fitzgerald, 31, on Thursday night in Frankford when they noticed him walking along Aramingo Avenue with a gun in a holster, a gold badge, and handcuffs.

Fitzgerald allegedly told the officers that he was a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) special agent and that they could not stop him.

But the laid-back photo on his identification card gave him away immediately.

"Maybe he has the right idea," said SEPTA Police Chief Thomas J. Nestel III. "Our police ID is so stuffy and official-looking. His is super cool and casual. How could you not love a cop with a photo ID like his?"

Nonetheless, the transit officers arrested Fitzgerald and charged him with impersonating a public servant.

Fitzgerald, who lives in Oxford Circle, has prior arrests for theft, robbery, and assault.

The gun in the holster turned out to be a starter's pistol.