Man arrested for impersonating a police officer
2003 Copyright Houston Chronicle
A registered sex offender who allegedly threatened to arrest female prostitutes unless they performed sexual acts has been charged with impersonating a police officer.
Robert Daniel Bliss, 35, of the 100 block of Tower Drive in Friendswood was arrested Wednesday. Police said he has confessed to impersonating a police officer on 10 occasions in which he "victimized prostitutes."
A woman told police a man driving a green Ford Taurus had been picking up prostitutes near the 3000 block of Telephone Road near the Gulf Freeway in southeast Houston. The man told women he was a police officer and would take them to jail unless they performed sexual acts, police said.
One woman copied the man's license plate number and alerted police.
The Texas Department of Public Safety lists Bliss as a registered sex offender for the August 1988 aggravated sexual assault of a 17-year-old female in Warren County, Miss. He was sentenced to 25 years for the crime and was released in March 1999.
Texas records indicate Bliss registered as a sex offender with Houston police in July 1999 and with Friendswood police Oct.23.
Police released a photo of Bliss and asked anyone with information to contact the Houston Police Department Major Offenders Division at 713-308-3100.
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