VIDEO: Sex Offender Arrested in Fake Cop Case

LEE COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI)- A suspect accused of using flashing blue and red lights to pull women over early Saturday morning has been arrested after an intensive manhunt.

The suspect is 44 year old Louis Winston Scott, and he is accused of posing as a law officer, and trying to stop females. In one case the victim was assaulted.

Scott was captured this afternoon, after authorities tried earlier in the day to serve a search warrant at his Pontotoc County residence.

He is accused of using flashing red and blue lights to stop two females during bogus traffic stops early Saturday.

The first managed to escape when she noticed a knife the suspect was holding. A second victim was stopped on I-22 in Union County. She was kidnapped, taken to another location and assaulted, before being returned to her car.

Authorities quickly honed in on Scott, who is a known sex offender. He was just released from prison for similar crimes back in 2000.

Scott was not at him home when the warrant was served, but he was captured in a wooded area hours later.

“That’s our main focus is protecting the public, and I’m sure, I know I am and sheriff Johnson is as well, just as relieved as they are,” says Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards.

According to Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson, “It’s a privilege to have surrounding agencies that work together, as Sheriff Edwards said, for a common goal, of helping the public, when you get one of these guys off the streets, it is rewarding .”

The Pontotoc County Sheriff’s Office provided assistance, and DeSoto County supplied a helicopter for the search.

Scott is charged with attempted kidnapping. He will face charges of rape and kidnapping in Union County. The car he allegedly used in his crimes is at the Union County Sheriff’s Department. The Pontotoc County Sheriff’s Department also helped in the search and arrest of the suspect.

Scott could have his initial appearance in Lee County tomorrow.