Traffic Stop Brings Driver With Fake Inspection Sticker To Long Valley: Police

LONG VALLEY, NJ — The Washington Township Police Department has dealt with another driver over the past two months coming through the township who had a fraudulent inspection sticker, who police additionally found had an outstanding warrant.

On the afternoon of Oct. 25, after pulling over the unidentified driver on Route 46, Lt. Mark Niemynski - spokesperson for the police department - said the responding officer found the person had an outstanding warrant already with Washington Township’s Municipal Court.

However, Niemynski said in the news release on Thursday, the officer also found the person had a suspended license and had been driving around with a counterfeit inspection sticker on their car, charges they now need to answer to in the township’s municipal court.

This is the eighth traffic stop that the police department has reported on that has resulted in responding officers not only finding drivers with warrants, but other infractions.

The tally that the police department has reported on beginning in September, has accrued to 13 warrants and three fake documents - two bogus inspection stickers and one forged license among them - found during the eight stops.

The traffic stops include:

On Sept. 9, an unidentified driver was stopped on Route 46 and charged for having a fake inspection sticker, plus for their vehicle not being inspected. Their unnamed passenger, police reportedly found, "had six active warrants," Niemynski said.
On Sept. 20, also on Route 46, the police department discovered that another driver, who they declined to name, had a warrant from Woodbridge Township.
On Sept. 27, responding officers took an unnamed driver into custody after that person was stopped on Route 46 with a warrant from Florida's Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. Niemynski said that person was taken to the Morris County Correctional Facility, with plans to extradite them to Florida.
On Oct. 5, another unidentified driver was stopped on Route 46, with a warrant from Rockaway Township.
On Oct. 6, an unnamed man from Lyndhurst driving on Route 46, was taken to the Morris County Correctional Facility after a Washington Township Police Officer stopped him and discovered a warrant from the Essex County Sheriff's Office.
On Oct. 7, a driver police stopped, again on Route 46, not only had a warrant from Bloomingdale, but furnished a bogus Maryland driver's license to the responding officer, according to the police department. Niemynski said the unnamed driver has an upcoming appearance in Morris County Superior Court to face charges for the fake license.
On Oct. 14, a responding officer stopped another car on Route 46, declining to name the driver, who the officer found to have an outstanding warrant with the Lackawanna County Sheriff’s Office in Pennsylvania. The person was taken to the Morris County Correctional Facility, to be extradited to Pennsylvania.

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