Driver Caught in the Right Car with the Wrong Registration

With his father looking on, a 19-year-old Easton man admitted to that he altered the license plate of his uninsured vehicle, which also had an expired registration, and was driving with a suspended license, according to court records.

Clinton Ball III of 1207 Jackson St. said he put a June 2012 registration sticker from another vehicle onto his license plate because he hadn’t transferred the title and needed a vehicle.

Ball, who was stopped Jan. 2 around 7pm on Sullivan Trail at Old Mill Road in his green Chevrolet Tracker, told police he bought the vehicle about a week earlier and did not transfer the registration because he did not have the money to do it. The registration expired July 2011.

Police stopped Ball’s vehicle and conducted a state record check because the Tracker had a broken or modified exhaust, the records say. Ball left the vehicle in a parking lot and his father arrived to pick him up.

Ball was charged with altered, forged or counterfeit documents or plates, driving while operating privilege is suspected or revoked, and registration and certificate of title required. He was arraigned Monday before of Palmer Township and released on $2,500 unsecured bail.

The above arrest information was supplied by the office of District Judge Jackie Taschner. It does not indicate a conviction.