ROSWELL, Ga. — A metro Atlanta man who portrayed himself on social media as a police officer and pastor is now behind bars after police say he impersonated an officer and stole a badge from a local police department.
Christopher Guillaume, 31, was arrested by Roswell police and booked into the Fulton County Jail Monday morning on multiple charges, including felony impersonating a police officer, financial transaction card fraud and theft by conversion.
Shaquanvia Jones told Channel 2 Action News that she filed the complaint that ultimately led to the investigation.
Jones, a single mother of four, Army veteran and aspiring nurse, said she first met Guillaume in 2023. The two initially talked as friends, but she said that by February 2026, Guillaume was telling her he wanted to marry her.
Jones said Guillaume also told her he was a Jonesboro police officer and a pastor.
She said there appeared to be plenty of evidence to support his claims.
“I saw his police videos, and I saw him with other police officers,” Jones said. “I saw him on the other scenes, like he would have videos on scene with other police officers.”
Jones said Guillaume wore a badge, carried a gun and posted photos and videos on social media that appeared to show him at crime scenes with other officers.
But Jones said she eventually discovered that the man she thought she knew was not who he claimed to be.
According to an arrest affidavit, Roswell police contacted the Jonesboro Police Department, which confirmed Guillaume had never worked for the department.
The affidavit states Guillaume had previously participated in a ride-along with Jonesboro police and later stole an officer’s badge.
Jones provided Channel 2 Action News with a photograph that she said shows Guillaume wearing that badge.
According to the affidavit, Guillaume allegedly went even further to explain why his supposed law enforcement career appeared to be changing.
Jones told investigators that Guillaume claimed he had quit the Jonesboro Police Department because the two were planning to move to Florida and he was in the process of being hired by a police department there.
According to the affidavit, Guillaume claimed the Florida department had offered him a salary of more than $100,000 a year and that the hiring process would include a psychological evaluation over Zoom followed by two to three months of what he described as “law training.”
Jones also told investigators that Guillaume never brought a police cruiser home. According to the affidavit, he once explained its absence by claiming the cruiser was in the shop after being damaged during a police chase.
Police records cited in the affidavit also indicate Guillaume had previous contact with the real Jonesboro Police Department.
According to the affidavit, Jonesboro police cited Guillaume for operating a vehicle with flashing blue lights and driving with a suspended license.
The affidavit states Guillaume currently has a failure-to-appear warrant out of Jonesboro related to those citations.
Jones said her suspicions about Guillaume grew after she began experiencing transmission problems with her SUV.
According to Jones, Guillaume offered to pay off the roughly $46,000 she still owed on the vehicle so she could purchase another vehicle and focus on nursing school.
Jones said she initially refused the offer because she was uncomfortable accepting that much money, but Guillaume insisted. She said he claimed to have money from his late mother as well as investments.
Jones said the payment initially appeared to go through, but she later received notices from the bank indicating it had been rejected.
She then began looking more closely into Guillaume’s background.
Jones said she contacted churches where Guillaume claimed to have preached but could not find evidence supporting his claims that he had served as a pastor there.
She also reached out to someone she knew in law enforcement about Guillaume’s claim that he was a police officer.
“He was like, ‘Quan, he’s never been a cop,’” Jones said. “Like my heart sank.”
Jones said she confronted Guillaume shortly after Memorial Day and that he disappeared from her life afterward.
She later contacted members of his family and said she was told Guillaume had allegedly targeted other women.
“He’s done this to 12 other women based off of what his brother said,” Jones told Channel 2 Action News. “I’m not the only one.”
Channel 2 Action News has not independently verified that claim, and police have not confirmed whether there are additional alleged victims.
Jones said the experience has taken a significant financial and emotional toll on her.
“I don’t understand how someone can do that to someone, especially knowing that they’re a single mother,” she said.
Channel 2’s Michael Seiden reached out to the Jonesboro police chief seeking additional information about the reported theft of the officer’s badge and Guillaume’s previous encounters with the department but had not heard back as of Monday afternoon.
Guillaume remained in the Fulton County Jail Monday.
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