PANAMA CITY — A Parker woman has been sentenced to months in federal prison for impersonating a U.S. Marshal, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Marcia Dawn Lowery, 41, was sentenced to four and a half months in federal prison Wednesday, officials announced. Between September and October 2014, Lowery resided at the Smuggler’s Cove residential complex (the “complex”) in Bay County where she posed as a deputy U.S. marshal.
Lowery told residents in the complex that she working undercover. To further her impersonation, Lowery walked around the complex wearing a T-shirt with “POLICE” on it, officials said.
While posing as a U.S. Marshal, Lowery told a resident in the complex that she would arrest the resident’s children for their bad behavior and take them to juvenile detention. She told a resident in the complex that the resident was in Lowery’s protective custody because of the resident’s outstanding arrest warrant from Tennessee. Lowery told a resident, who was on probation, that she would get the resident’s conviction expunged if the resident provided Lowery with the names of his drug sources, which he did.
Based on her representations that she was a U.S. marshal, Lowery also obtained extensions on her rent, which went unpaid and resulted in a loss to the complex of about $1,500.