ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Rochester woman is facing E-ZPass charges from New York City, but the license plate number on the bill doesn’t match her car. It matches her boat registration.
Lisa Reed received bills for a car that went through the Congestion Relief Zone in midtown Manhattan on from April 26th through June 2nd.The license plate listed on the bill is 4063 PC, the same registration number on her boat.
“At first I thought maybe a scam and then I thought – how can this be?” Reed said.
Reed had a friend in law enforcement run the plate number, and in the state DMV system, 4063 PC comes back to her.
Berkeley Brean, News10NBC: “So in the DMV system, the license plate that is on this bill comes back to you?”Lisa Reed: “Correct.”Berkeley Brean: “But it’s the number on your boat.”Lisa Reed: “Yes.”
Reed says she has never had a license plate with that combination of numbers and letters.
Over the past two weeks, News10NBC investigated a series of bad E-ZPass charges. In most cases, the E-ZPass cameras in the Congestion Relief Zone of New York City caught state police cars.Because they are in Manhattan, the trooper cars license plates have the letter “M.” But that matches the specialized letter “M” license plates of former Monroe County employees and they end up getting the E-ZPass bills.
After News10NBC’s reports and a series of reports on fraudulent plates in Buffalo, State Senator George Borrello asked for a public hearing with the DMV.
“This and the stories you’re telling about the 1M plates in the Monroe County area shows the system is broken and that no one in New York State’s bureaucracy is doing anything about it,” said Sen. George Borrello, (R) 57th District, Western New York.
Sen. Borrello sponsors a bill that would strengthen penalties for license plate fraud.
Senator Jeremy Cooney, chair of transportation in the state senate, has had conversations about this with the state DMV commissioner. Cooney’s office says the DMV is looking at improvement in the tolling process.
“We are actively monitoring their follow-up,” Cooney’s office wrote in a text.
Reed’s latest E-ZPass bill includes “past due” charges.
“I don’t lose sleep over it but I want it gone,” Reed said.
Late Tuesday afternoon, News10NBC heard from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City and the state DMV. The MTA reversed the charges against Reed and said she should not be getting any new ones.
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