GREENSBURG, Pa.—A Colorado trucker has been fined $1,000 for not paying a $36.05 Pennsylvania Turnpike Toll, but avoided possible jail on charges that he purposely obscured his license plates in the process.
Fifty-seven-year-old Kevin Roche, of Kremmling, Colo., was cited in May 2010 for driving through an E-ZPass lane in New Stanton without an electronic toll scanning device.
Roche says he knew he’d be billed and intended to pay the toll later because toll booth cameras record license plate numbers of non-paying vehicles.
A jury acquitted Roche of charges that he intentionally hid his rear plate with a paper bag and his front plate under a notepad on his dashboard. But a judge didn’t believe the trucker’s claim that the plates were accidentally obscured and fined him on a lesser charge.
Roche tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (), “Justice was served.”
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Information from: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
