Hi, good afternoon. Sorry to walk up on you like that. We're the police department. May I have your license and registration? Stopping you for something we call a distracted tag. The border around your license plate is covering the word New Jersey. It's not legal to have in the state of Florida. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. I've seen a couple of things in your wallet that look like driver license. Can I see the rest of them? That one right there looks like maybe Connecticut or something. Oh, I was right. Cool. So, this looks pretty fake to me. Same name. Date of birth 4/30/04, but this says 2001. So, when I run this, this is going to come back no record found, right? >> Yeah. >> Right. Did you know that possession of a counterfeit driver license is a felony? >> No. >> Yeah, it's a felony. Like you could be arrested right now, handcuffed, and taken to jail. >> Okay. >> Poor choice. >> I'm sorry. >> Real bad. Really very stupid. Okay. Where'd you get it? >> Online. >> Like a website, fake driver's licenses or something? >> I don't think this is the right registration. >> It is. >> Okay. >> Yeah, I'll take it. So, cool thing is is I was probably only going to give you a warning. Have fake IDs, it's a felony. Really, it's got a little like bubble character in a jail jumpsuit. Never seen any of this stuff. Cool, okay. Well, like I said, this is a felony. So, are you a student? >> Yeah. >> Cool. So, you're going to get a student affair referral because you have committed a felony. >> Okay. >> Okay, but I'm going to tell you right off the bat, I'm not planning on taking you to jail. Okay? This gets to go away. I'm still going to run it. It's all being recorded on my body camera, but when you open your wallet, we look for these things. Right? You use it for drinking or what? >> Yeah. >> Cool, okay. I appreciate you being honest. That goes a long way. Right? Had you fed me some lines or lies or whatever, um I probably would have made things a lot more difficult. I don't like being lied to, but okay. So, the whole thing about the license plate, when you cover the word New Jersey, can't see it. We have cameras that pick up these things when you come onto campus, but they can only read characters. Say somebody is a wanted murderer and they have a Missouri license plate with that same one matching and the officers don't know, guess who's getting chased down and pulled out of the car with guns drawn on her. That's got to come off. >> know that. >> A lot of people don't know. It's a $114 ticket. I may or may not write it, but I'm still going to run your info. How's your driver record? >> Uh pretty clean. Speeding? >> Oh, okay. Well, hey, you weren't speeding today, so that's a good thing. Uh where'd you get stopped at? >> Um at home in Upper Township in New Jersey. >> Oh, okay. I don't know about New Jersey being um you know, the obstructed tag thing, but our statute says your tag, the state, the characters, um for those of us that have the validation tabs, the little yellow stickers, all that has to be clean, free of dirt, debris, grease, grime, and mutilation for distance visible no less than 100 ft. When you cover the word New Jersey, most people can't see that. I could see I have many tags memorized, but Florida has over 200 types of tags now, so when people cover that, I'm like, I have no idea. But again, the big thing is is we got a lot of cars come in, they get hits on these license plate readers, and then we got to try to find the car, and then the cops on a wild goose chase all because we could have figured out that the thing said New Jersey and not New Hampshire. >> So, if I just get that taken off >> Yeah, absolutely. It's probably just held on with the same screws from your license plate, but we've been like, we had one today and I recognized it. I wasn't even here, but thankfully my radio worked and I got the email. I was in Brevard County and I heard it and I called out. I'm like, I know that's an eight, not a B cuz it's a computer. It can only recognize characters, not perfect. But the cops were going to go chase >> and after somebody who had a Connecticut one that appears to be fictitious, but copy a Connecticut number. 042? >> Riley is negative and valid and the Connecticut DL cannot be found. >> All right, miss. I appreciate your patience. Are you okay? >> Yeah. >> All right. I see you crying. Okay. If this is your first time getting in trouble for something like this, probably not going to be a big deal, okay? This is a college, believe me, this isn't the first one I've seen. I mean, it's not immediately after you pass it in your wallet, I already saw it. I've been doing this a long time, okay? We know what we're looking for. We see this stuff all the time. All right, traffic stuff, first off, your license is valid and there's no warrants or wants on you, okay? I'm not going to write you a $114 ticket when all I really want is your pink glittery rhinestone thing, either gone or moved. I don't know how you want to do it, but if you can mount it and keep it on there to work to where the word New Jersey is clear and visible, but keep in mind our cameras are like kind of high up, so maybe just take it off, but we want to be able to see that and want to make sure that, you know, >> Okay. >> I I don't want you to get chased down over not doing that. I am obviously seizing the license, that's evidence. I'm not charging you criminally, okay? But understand that I could have and everything I needed body cam recorded. That being said, anytime any of our students are involved in criminal activity, even if I wanted to cut you the biggest break in the world and say, "You know what? I'm not going to do it." I would get in trouble for that. You have to talk to student affairs, okay? Um they're going to contact you via your information on file. I don't know if it's, you know, in person or, you know, virtual, whatever, um but you're going to have to go before, you know, the student board and explain the goings-on and they can choose to sanction you in a number of ways because you committed a felony, they could technically throw you out of the college. I've not heard of that happening, but I will tell you all of the results of student affairs are kept secret from us. So, whatever happens, I will never know, right? So, I can't tell you that people have or have not been unless it's so egregious that like student affairs calls us in to issue a trespass to that person on the spot. So, if that happens, you know, but again, I'm telling you on camera, I haven't seen it, okay? We're a college, we expect fake IDs. It's just it happens to be a pretty high-level crime for what it is. You seize it, you'll hear from student affairs, you know, I never see or hear from any of those folks again. Do you have any questions for me about that? >> Um do I have to take the license plate off and I can I keep driving? >> Okay, so >> I will tell you technically if you continue to drive with that and somebody else sees it, you can get stopped because you're obstructing the word New Jersey. >> Okay. >> That being said, if it's any of us, you know, like hey, Sergeant Larkin just stopped me, I'm on my way home to do it. Unless you have tools in your car like I have tools in my car, I don't recommend trying to do that right here and right now. Okay, how far are you going to go home? Where do you live locally? >> In Libra. >> Oh, okay, so on campus. >> Yeah, but I was going to go to the gym. >> Okay. >> But my dad's leaving tomorrow, so he can do >> Okay. Does dad have tools with him? Okay. If if not, you know, I'm sure somebody could help you with that again. It looks like it's just held on by the two screws for your license plate. So, those come off, take the border off. I've told other people if they want to drill holes so that it, you know, the drop the tag drops a little lower or it's up to you. I mean, I get it, you know, it's a stylized thing. We sell them on campus, you know, in the store, you know, UCF Knights and it covers the word Florida and it's like you probably if you look at the back of it it says, you know, check state and local regulations, blah blah blah cuz they're not legal here, right? Or if you put it on a front plate, we don't care about that. It tells us if you want it for murder and so on and so forth. So, um, I would say you could leave it, but you could get stopped anytime between now and right? There's only a couple of us doing traffic at the moment, so probably okay, but as long as it's on there, it's a violation. >> Okay. >> Don't know too many people that write the tickets, but since we've been getting a lot more of these, these bad hits, I'm pulling over every vehicle that I see that has that, you know, blockage on it cuz we want to avoid it. >> Okay. >> Any other questions for me, comments or concerns? You feel okay? If you want to sit here for a little bit and chill, that's fine, too. Look like you probably need it. But again, you're not being charged criminally. >> Okay. >> I would I would definitely not repeat what happened today, okay? >> Okay. >> Right? You You know how much longer to go? Was it a a year and some change? 2004 and this is 23, so okay, maybe in 2 years. But, look, we know, okay? It's fine. But, you don't want to get caught with that stuff. The other cop, if they decided they wanted to make a felony collar, easiest one in the book, right? We're good to go as soon as I move my