Crossing State Lines Doesn’t Erase The Fines: Georgia Man’s “License Loophole” Ends In Florida

A 48-year-old man from St. Marys, Georgia, learned the hard way on Saturday morning that a change of scenery—and a different state’s plastic—doesn’t exactly wipe the slate clean in Florida. Torrence Joyner was taken into custody after a Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputy realized his valid Georgia license was essentially a band-aid on a much larger legal headache.

The encounter began around 11 a.m. when an FCSO Traffic Enforcement Unit member received an alert about a silver Chevrolet SUV cruising down Interstate 95.

The system flagged the registered owner as having a suspended Florida license. The deputy pulled the vehicle over near mile marker 280 to investigate…

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