It seemed like more of a movie storyline than something out of the headlines.   A Florida teen charged with two counts of practicing medicine without a license. As interesting as the headline is, the story is even more so.

Mathew Scheidt was convicted in August of those two counts along with two additional counts of impersonating a physician assistant at The Osceola Regional Florida Center in central Florida in 2011.  At the time of the impersonation, he was just 17 years old.

Now, he is sentenced for the four felonies, resulting in a sentence of a year in jail followed by eight years of probation.

During his trial, Scheidt stated that it all began as a mistake. He said while working as a clerk at a doctor’s office across the street from The Osceola Regional Medical Center, he went to the center to pick up an I.D. badge for his job as a clerk. Someone, however, had mistakenly put him in the system as a physician assistant. Soon he was working in the hospital’s emergency room changing bandages and even giving CPR. He said the clerical error gave him an opportunity to learn as much as he could.

This story gets even more bizarre, however. Following his arrest in September of 2011, he was allowed to bond out. Within just four months, he was once again in custody. What was the charge this time? This time Scheidt was charged with impersonating an officer.

It seems the teen, empowered by his medical experience, was arrested after pulling over a motorist and ordering him to put on his seatbelt. As it turns out, this was no ordinary motorist, but rather a policeman working undercover. Scheidt was reported to have a loaded handgun and was driving what seemed like an unmarked police car. There has not yet been a trial for the new charges.

There is a report that the teen’s charades began years earlier when he was volunteering at another hospital at the age of 13. He was reportedly asked to leave the volunteer program after he had attempted to impersonate a nurse.