A man who has a history of stalking and impersonating law enforcement is back in jail on new charges.
Wycliffee D. Capps, 49, was arrested Saturday, May 28, by Richmond County Sheriff’s Office on a new charge of aggravated stalking. He is currently in jail without bond.
The alleged stalking stems from May 26 when Deputy Matthew Sanderson was following up a Neighborhood Watch tip about a van seen near Wheeler Road and Ingleside Drive late at night on more than one occasion, according to a incident report.
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That night about 12:30 a.m. Sanderson spotted a van matching the general description parked at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church.
The van was empty, but the deputy took pictures of it and noted that there was a spotlight affixed to the visor and two more lights affixed to the rear of the vehicle and inside he could see a laptop mounted near the driver’s seat door, much like many patrol vehicles have. Sanderson ran the license plate. It was registered to Capps. He also found Capps had been previously prosecuted for stalking a woman, his ex-wife, who lives in the neighborhood.
Capps was sentenced to 10 years on probation in April 2021 for two separate aggravated stalking cases that occurred in 2020 against his then estranged wife. They have since divorced. He was specifically ordered not to have contact with his her as a condition of his probation, although she told Sanderson Capps had been calling and texting her again.
In 2008, Capps was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for illegally possession firearms, including a machine gun. As a convicted felon it was illegal for Capps to possess firearms.
He was convicted in 2005 of one of three counts of impersonating a police officer. He was sentenced to two years on probation. In 1998 he was arrested for impersonating an officer, a charge reduced to a misdemeanor offense, after he pulled over a female driver. His vehicle was equipped with blue lights, and he was wearing a vest with “sheriff” printed on it.
Sandy Hodson is a staff reporter covering courts for The Augusta Press. Reach her at sandy@theaugustapress.com.
