A North Carolina man has been charged with posing as an Army general in order to land a helicopter on unauthorized grounds, according to authorities.
Christian Gerald Desgroux, 57, on Nov. 6, pretended to be a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army “engaged in transporting a person for a classified briefing and under such guise having asserted authority to land a helicopter at Statistical Analysis Systems (SAS) headquarters,” according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.