- A woman in Hillsborough County, Florida was pulled over for a routine traffic stop due to a blown tail light bulb, but was found to possess twelve fake driver’s licenses with different names and birth dates.
Sometimes the smallest thing on your car gives you away. A blown tail light bulb, a dark license plate lamp, one of those little details most drivers forget about until a cop pulls up behind them. That is exactly what happened to a Hillsborough County, Florida driver last week, and it turned into one of the more tangled traffic stops we have covered in a while.
Deputies noticed the rear lights were out on a vehicle driving through the area and pulled the car over, a completely routine stop that happens thousands of times a day across the country. What followed was anything but routine, showed the New York Post’s viral post. The woman behind the wheel told the deputy her boyfriend was supposed to meet her to pick up the car, since it was apparently a rental in his name. She said she had a license, just not with her at the moment.
From there the story only got murkier. She gave her name as Brianna, said she was from New York but visiting friends in Florida while staying at an Airbnb. The problem was she had no New York identification of any kind, and when the deputy pressed her on it, her answers started contradicting each other. She said she was not born in New York but currently lived there. She also admitted she had never actually held a valid driver’s license, and there was nothing in the vehicle with her real name on it…