Treo, I mean this sincerely. You're pride and your ego are far too wrapped up in the idea that you are connected to law enforcement. Look, many of us freely admit we're just neighborhood guys. I'm retired, I drive an eleven year old truck.
I have called your credentials into question. In turn, you seriously expect me to find a torn 30 year old sleeve. Somehow, this validates your claims.
No one, and I mean no one, is going to lose respect for you if you tell the truth. In fact, we'd have more respect for you if you dropped the pretense.
Like I told hso on a telephone call, the hardest thing I ever did was to hunt down all of the people I had wronged or lied to, admit my guilt and offer an apology. I could only do two people per night. I would have rather been kicked by a townie.
But, guy, you don't know about history, law, procedure and the statutes of your own state--available on a simple google. If this thread does anything perhaps it will show our true high road.
I'm holding my hand out to you here.