MSP Automated License Scanner Picks Up Handful of Violations
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MSP Automated License Scanner Picks Up Handful of Violations

CALVERT COUNTY - 9/6/2009

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On Sept. 3, at 5 p.m., Troopers from the Prince Frederick Barrack conducted a sobriety checkpoint on MD Route 260 (Chesapeake Beach Road) near Wesley Stinnett Boulevard in Chesapeake Beach. 

During the checkpoint, an automated license plate scanner was also used. This device scans passing plates and automatically runs them through MVA databases. During the event, 1,009 vehicles were checked by troopers at the checkpoint and 2,280 license plates were scanned. 

The statistical results are as follows: Two DUI arrests, one drug arrest, four open warrants served, four suspended tags, seventeen suspended driver’s licenses, nineteen Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program suspensions, and five MSP tag pickup orders.   

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NotBornHereNot Logged In
 9/7/2009 at 9:50 AM
Nice
More people driving on suspended licenses. They really show a ot of respect for the law. Bet they are the first to scream about theirs rights being violated too.

A simple although a little draconian solution: Change the laws so the vehicles are impounded and become state property. I won't loan my car to anybody with a suspended license (yes, I check) and nobody else should either.

Eventually those people will run out of things to drive and the law will be obeyed.
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majorhavocNot Logged In
 9/8/2009 at 8:48 AM
Reply to NotBornHere: Not a right
They must remember that having a driver's license is a privilege not a right.
brbrNot Logged In
 9/8/2009 at 8:38 AM
I do......
......not agree with using these license plate scanners to catch people. Just another example of this "free" country we live in!
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skittlesNot Logged In
 9/8/2009 at 2:18 PM
Reply to brbr: are you joking?
you dont agree?! so you want some a**hole to hit you drunk and potentially kill you and yours because you deem it unconstitutional for the cops to use scanners?! grow up and realize that if you break the law youll be caught and the cops can do it in any way shape of form. besides if you read the story it says the scanners were used at sobriety checkpoints, so they most likely wouldve been caught anyways.


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