WESTBROOK – A Cumberland County grand jury has indicted a Scarborough man, charging him with impersonating a police officer after he was arrested in April outside Dreamers Cabaret.

According to the Aug. 4 indictment list, James Kingsbury, 34, of 97 Maple St., has been indicted on charges of driving with a revoked license for being a habitual offender, a class C felony; impersonating a public servant, a class E misdemeanor; and unsworn falsification, a class D misdemeanor.

The charges stem from an incident police responded to on April 28 outside the Warren Avenue business. The club’s owner, Larry Ferrante, has been fighting with the city since September of last year to open as a strip club, but at the moment the business remains closed.

According to a copy of the police report on the incident by Officer Michael Loranger, police went to the club at 1:43 a.m. after a security guard called to report seeing the door open and “flashing lights” inside. When Loranger and other officers arrived, the report indicates a man entered the building, but officers failed to make contact with anyone inside the building. There is no indication in the report of the officers determining anything was going on inside the building, Loranger wrote, but while they were there a White Nissan Maxima arrived.

Loranger wrote the driver, later determined to be Kingsbury, pretended to be an off-duty Old Orchard Beach police officer, and produced one of the officer’s business cards as identification. He told police, Loranger wrote, that he had come to pick someone up who was attending an “after party,” but he then left without picking anyone up.

Loranger wrote he and his fellow officers were suspicious, and after following up on the incident learned that Kingsbury was in fact roommates with the officer he was impersonating, which led to the arrest.

Ferrante said this week that the incident has nothing to do with the club, and that he had never heard of Kingsbury until word of his arrest was published. Ferrante said Kingsbury’s arrest was in a different part of the industrial park from where Dreamers is located.

“That was nowhere near our place at all,” he said. “He wasn’t on our property at all.”

As to Kingsbury’s allegation of an after party, Ferrante said, “that’s a lie.” The only people that have been on the premises, Ferrante said, were construction workers, who finished at the end of March. Since then, Ferrante said, the building has remained closed, and the power shut off.

“That place has been locked up even tighter than Fort Knox,” he said.