A Transportation Security Administration supervisor who works at Newark International Airport was arrested last week for impersonating a police officer.

Michael Mazzone, 27, of Roselle Park, a lead transportation security officer employed by the TSA since 2006, is due in Superior Court in Elizabeth on Friday, said Detective Sgt. Manuel Jimenez, a spokesman for the Roselle Park Police Department.

Jimenez said Mazzone was arrested Wednesday, March 2, on a charge of “pretending to hold a position as a sworn law enforcement officer.”

Mazzone faces a separate charge in Roselle Park Municipal Court of failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk, the offense he was originally stopped for, before claiming to be a “customs inspector,” Jimenez said.

Mazzone was pulled over at noon on Jan. 19, when he told Officer Theodore Dima he was a customs agent but wasn’t carrying his badge, Jimenez said. He said the real officer issued the impersonator a summons for not yielding and let him go, then called federal officials.

The TSA has been in trouble before at Newark International Airport, as recently as last week and at least six security breaches in the past leading to the question as to whether the TSA, at least in Newark, are truly making anyone any safer.