A man pleaded guilty Friday to charges he impersonated an FBI agent at a voting site in Falls Church, Virginia, during the 2024 election.
Federal prosecutors said Alex Chieu Nguyen, 44, of Annandale, went to Timber Lane Elementary School, which had been set up as a polling place on Nov. 5, 2024 for Election Day.
He arrived in a black SUV and was wearing dark sunglasses, a blue zippered sweatshirt with the FBI logo, a fraudulent badge and a holster with an air pistol resembling a Glock handgun.
He told election officials and greeters he was assigned to the FBI’s “Election Security,” but he had never been employed by the FBI and was not authorized to have or use a badge identifying him as a federal law enforcement officer, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a news release.
Nguyen later entered the building where voting was taking place, and when the site’s chief election official asked to see his credentials, he displayed the fake badge. He then left the school and was arrested later that day.
In addition to the impersonation charge, Nguyen pleaded guilty to possessing imitation federal law enforcement credentials.
He faces up to three years in prison at his sentencing, which is scheduled on Jan. 14, 2027.
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