NYPD Sends Real Navy SEAL For Psychiatric Evaluation After He Claimed He Was A Navy SEAL

Last Thursday did not go well for Shaun Day. He was stopped by New York City cops for running a red light, only to have them find a 9mm semiautomatic pistol and three magazines of ammo in his car. Day explained to the officers that he is a Navy SEAL with “top- secret clearance”… which promptly convinced the police to send him to Bellevue for a psychiatric evaluation.

The problem is that Day is actually a Navy SEAL on a two-week leave, despite how having had any documentation on him to prove this. A police source maintains that Day had been “rambling incoherently” at the time of his arrest.

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All charges against him have since been deferred, although there’s no word on how he was able to prove his status.

h/t Gothamist via The Blaze

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