Quote Originally Posted by 5spdfrk
Dude, it's like people come looking for you.

I doubt he will get charged with impersonating a police officer for just having a strobe and not turning it on. I don't think it's illegal to have one, but I maybe wrong.
They said that they were about to arrest him. Even if he didn't turn it on, I don't believe that you can have it (blue strobe) sitting on your dash in view of other motorists in an attempt to intimidate/scare other drivers, either.