PARIS – A Paris paramedic was charged Friday with pretending to be a police officer when he pulled over a woman driver last month in Waterford.

Stanley Larson, 36, of Skillings Avenue was summoned on a charge of impersonating an officer Friday afternoon in connection with an incident Jan. 3.

Larson was at the Tri-Town Rescue Service office in West Paris when he was summoned to appear in court by Maine State Police Trooper Andre Paradis, investigators said.

Larson works for the ambulance service as an emergency medical technician.

Police who summoned Larson also impounded his car, a 1994 dark blue Ford Crown Victoria. Police say it is the car Larson used when he pretended to be a cop.

The car was once a cruiser used by the Norway Police Department, according to Maine State Police spokesman Stephen McCausland.

Last month, a woman reported that at about 11:15 p.m. on Jan. 3, she was driving on a remote section of Route 118 when a car came up behind her with a red light flashing.

The driver got out of his vehicle and approached the woman, police said.

When the woman asked him for identification, he went back to his car and drove away. Maine State Police have been investigating the case since. It was unclear Friday what evidence pointed them toward Larson.

Troopers towed Larson’s car to the State Police barracks in Gray and sent investigators to search his home at Skillings Avenue in South Paris.

Police did not disclose what, if anything, was uncovered in the search.

Larson could not be reached for comment Friday night.

He was ordered to appear in South Paris District Court in late March to answer the charge.

Conviction for impersonating a public servant is punishable by up to six months in jail.