Kingfisher County Sheriff's Office arrested James Leroy Farmer, 28, of Kingfisher, Tuesday for allegedly impersonating a police officer and holding another local man at gunpoint at the side of the road Jan. 13.

 Farmer, 1985 E. Robberts Ave., remains jailed on $12,000 bond after pleading not guilty Wednesday in Kingfisher County District Court to three felony counts, impersonating a law enforcement officer, kidnapping and feloniously pointing a firearm, and two misdemeanors, transporting a loaded firearm in a vehicle and threatening to perform an act of violence. He is scheduled to return to court at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 14.

According to an affidavit signed by Deputy Mike Shults, in the early morning hours of Jan. 13, Farmer allegedly pulled in behind Brandon Kuehn, whose truck was stuck in the ditch along Shafenberg Road about a half mile south of Will Rogers Drive.

Kuehn told Shults that he was waiting for a friend who was coming to pull him out when Farmer pulled in behind his vehicle and identified himself as a Big 4 Fire Department volunteer and Dover Police Officer and allegedly showed a badge.

Kuehn reported Farmer said he was supposed to be headed to a call, and then Farmer allegedly got out a pipe and began smoking it, later allegedly telling Kuehn that he was smoking “ice,” according to Shults’ affidavit.

Without asking Kuehn, Farmer then called Southside Wrecker to pull Kuehn’s vehicle from the ditch, and then allegedly pulled out a handgun, chambered a round, pointed it at Kuehn and ordered him to turn on his flashers and threatened to shoot him in the knee if he tried to run, Kuehn told Shults.

Farmer then allegedly wrote a “warning” on a piece of paper and signed it as Badge No. 137 and continued to point the gun, according to Shults’ affidavit.

After the wrecker service pulled Kuehn out, Farmer followed Kuehn to his house and left when he went inside.

Shults called Farmer and he came in voluntarily to the sheriff’s office for an interview on Jan. 15. Farmer allegedly told Shults that he stopped when he saw Kuehn’s truck at the side of the road and told Kuehn that he had been trying to get on with either the Big 4 Fire Department or the Dover Police Department.

Farmer also said he told Kuehn that his gun was under his seat and Kuehn tried to grab it and Farmer told him if he tried again he would shoot him in the knee because he would feel threatened, according to Shults’ affidavit.

When Shults told Farmer he had sufficient probable cause to collect his handgun, Farmer allegedly handed him a loaded 9-millimeter Taurus handgun that Farmer retrieved from his glove compartment, according to Shults’ affidavit.

Farmer also allegedly admitted having “a pipe” in his car, when Shults asked him if he currently or previously had anything else illegal in his vehicle. When Shults asked if it was the same pipe Farmer had allegedly smoked in front of Kuehn, Farmer responded, “probably,” according to Shults’ affidavit.

Shults said he ejected the loaded magazine and secured both the gun and magazine in an evidence bag and told Farmer he was free to go.

Kuehn later identified the gun as the same one Farmer allegedly pointed at him.

If convicted, Farmer faces possible sentences of two years on the impersonation charge, up to 20 years for kidnapping and up to 10 years for pointing a firearm.