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This guy has some things to explain or others are lying about him. Thus the reason he’s probably become an interest of law enforcement.

http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_08dd632c-b44c-11e2-8ff8-0019bb30f31a.html

n a telephone interview, Manning said he showed a security guard his ID at the courthouse entrance. The card identified Manning as a bail bondsman licensed by the N.C. Department of Insurance.

“It said nothing about being a law-enforcement officer, a deputy or a police officer,” Manning said. “A guard then said, ‘You can’t bring your handcuffs in the courthouse.’”

Manning told the guard that federal and state case law give him the legal authority to carry handcuffs into the courthouse. “The guard said, ‘I still don’t care,’” Manning said.

Manning then asked to speak to the guard’s supervisor, but left the building before speaking to any other security personnel, he said. Manning soon returned, but another guard denied him entry into the courthouse.

Manning said he videotaped both encounters with the guards who, when they realized Manning was recording their actions, “pushed him out of the door.” Several deputies had surrounded him inside the courthouse, Manning said.

“I wasn’t a threat to them,” Manning said.

Manning said he likely irritated the guards by his persistence to enter the courthouse.

“I was a thorn in his (the guard’s) side,” Manning said. “I stood my ground. It’s nonsense.”

According to the search warrant, Manning and another man on April 13 approached three boys who were playing with air guns in the woods behind their house. During the encounter, one of the boys said that Manning pointed a 9 mm handgun at him, an allegation that Manning denies.

“I would never point a weapon at anybody unless I felt my life was in danger,” Manning said, adding that the boys were playing on land belonging to Manning’s family.

During his encounter with the boys, Manning implied that he was a law-enforcement officer and asked for the boys’ addresses, phone numbers and full names, the search warrant said. Manning told the father of one of the boys that he was conducting fugitive training in the woods in the Abington community near Kernersville.

Manning was later charged with misdemeanor assault by pointing a gun at the boy, an arrest warrant says.

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On April 20, Manning told a staff member in the Family Services office in the courthouse that he was an undercover agent as he was trying to file a domestic-violence protective order against a female Forsyth deputy, according to the warrant. The Family Services employee believed Manning was a law-enforcement officer.

Manning said he believes the allegations against him are the result of a misunderstanding between him and the investigators involved with the charges against him. He is scheduled to appear in Forsyth District Court on May 17 on the assault charge and May 29 on the charge of impersonating a law-enforcement officer.