Friday, March 01, 2024
Cleaning up Knoxville one Waffle House at a time
In the simmering early hours of a February morning in Knoxville, Tennessee, an incident unfolded that blurred the lines between farce and felony. Kimberly Michelle Gonzales, a 60-year-old woman, found herself in the glare of law enforcement, not for what she did but for who she pretended to be. Striding into a local Waffle House, she declared herself an agent of the FBI, on a mission to shut the establishment down due to alleged illegal drug sales. What followed was a sequence of events that left the community bemused and law enforcement bemired in a case of criminal impersonation.
