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MICHAEL ROTHFELD and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
Newsday





Three men in an Acura sedan with blue and red lights flashing from the dashboard pulled over a woman in Medford, even though they were not cops, Suffolk police said Friday.

The woman, Tricia Tyrer, 20, of East Patchogue, said in an interview that after stopping on Woodside Avenue on Thursday afternoon, she noticed the driver was wearing a black baseball cap backward and a blue sweatshirt. He didn't have a badge, she said.

"The driver had said, 'At least we got one to pull over,'" Tyrer said Friday. "And I was like, 'Why would they say that?' And when he said it, there was a snicker."

The driver had almost reached her window when she drove away. Tyrer notified police and a 2002 Acura was later located. She identified the car and its driver, Jesse Lunde, 24, of 105 Shaber Rd., Patchogue.

Lunde, who owns the car, was arrested and charged with first-degree criminal impersonation and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a nightstick, Fifth Squad Det. Sgt. Darrell Dabe said. Two other men were found by police in the car, but Tyrer said she couldn't identify them.

Last night, Lunde and his father contacted Newsday to say he was innocent and had been arrested without a reading of his rights. He said he was held, chained to a desk, by police at the Fifth Precinct station house for three hours while they ignored his two requests for a lawyer and attempted to intimidate him into confessing.

"They were getting right in my face, threatening to hurt me bad - basically, 'Tell us what we want to know or we're going to hurt you,'" Lunde said in an interview. "I'm innocent here, for them to come at me so vulgar, I felt like this isn't America."

The investigators who worked on the case were not available last night to comment on Lunde's allegations.

Lunde said police found him at a friend's house. One of his friends had accused another of stealing a necklace, and called police, who then spotted his Acura parked there. Police then brought Tyrer to the house to identify him, Lunde said.

But he said she had the wrong color of his car, calling it silver instead of dark gray; and said he does not own any lights or sirens. He also said the weapon was a karate stick belonging to his brother.

Lunde's attorney, Philip Murphy of Bay Shore, said his client pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Friday and was released without bail.

On Dec. 19, a woman was robbed after being pulled over in Patchogue by a gray sedan with a red light on the roof. There have been no arrests in that case, Dabe said.

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