Police: Man poses as fake doctor at Pennsylvania resort

A Michigan man has been arrested on charges that he pretended to be a doctor to stay at a swanky resort in Western Pennsylvania.

You might call him Doctor Dupe. 41-year-old Jeffrey Cochran is behind bars on Thursday morning and accused of staying at a posh hotel without paying, by pretending to be a doctor.

It's as if he stole the idea right from "Catch Me if You Can," a movie about a real life con artist played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Pennsylvania police say that Cochran stayed in a $500 a night room at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resorts for two weeks in May.

They say he ran up a tab of more than $16,000 and then left without paying a dime, only leaving the hotel once employees caught on.

Police finally arrested him during a traffic stop in Michigan, six months later.

According to court documents, Cochran initially called the hotel posing as another doctor from a local hospital and told them to set up a house account for an out of town doctor named Jeffrey Cochran.

Authorities in Nebraska say he is also wanted there because earlier this year, he did the same thing.

He told them he was a doctor doing work for a local hospital and that the hospital would be picking up the tab. He stayed there for 47 days.

Apparently the idea is not so far-fetched. 20-year-old Matthew Scheidt was sentenced to a year in jail after he was arrested in 2011 for impersonation a physician assistant in a Florida hospital when he was just 17.

But Cochran has allegedly taken the charade even further.

Back in 2009, he was interviewed by Fox Sports in Las Vegas, where he went by the name Jeff Muney and claimed to be a professional golfer.