I how are you? >> I'm good. >> So, you went through the stop sign and you didn't make a complete stop at all. >> I was trying to, but my car is messed up. I'm driving it from one house to the next house. That's all I do. I'm driving it off that road circle. >> Okay. Do you have a driver's license? >> Nothing. I just got up in the morning. Walked to the guy's house. >> You don't have no ID on you? >> None. >> Okay. >> It starts with a rolling stop. In most states, a stop sign means a complete stop. Wheels fully stopped every time, even on an empty side street at dawn. The driver here admits she rolled through it, but a traffic stop is rarely just about the traffic. The first thing an officer asks for is a license, and she does not have one on her. >> Whose car is this? >> It's my >> This is your boyfriend's car? Ex-boyfriend? >> Yes. >> Do you have the uh paperwork for the car? >> Um >> 224, can you run a VIN for me? Give me a second, all right? Keep looking for that, though. >> The car is not hers. She says it belongs to an ex-boyfriend and that she is only dropping it off. That raises a simple question with real legal weight. Can she show she is allowed to drive it? When the officer runs the plate, it does not come back to this vehicle in the state. A plate that does not match the car it is on is its own violation, and it warns the officer the registration may not be valid. >> Yes. That's where I'm going. You can actually follow me there. I'm just dropping it off. It can be parked in my in my driveway. It's either the car needs to go back to owner or I'm going to use my permit. >> 224, I'm not showing anything in Connecticut for that VIN. >> Do you know if it was purchased in Connecticut? >> Yes, it was. It was. >> I'll get with you in a second. >> Roger. >> Um You have a license but you don't have one with you. >> I don't Yes. >> Okay, is it out of Connecticut? >> No, no, I'm from here. I'm from Connecticut. >> Yes, I'm saying is your license from Connecticut? >> Yes, yes. >> Okay. And you don't have any ID on you. >> I don't have no ID on me. All I did was walk from my friend's house, picked up the truck from one side of the street to drive it down the street. That was all I'm doing. What's your name again? >> Okay. And what's your your date of birth? You're not lying to me or anything. >> No, no, I'm not lying. You can just look it up. >> You don't have anything with your name on it. Cuz when I when I run your name it doesn't nothing comes back. And if you have a Connecticut license it's supposed to come back. >> I do. Honestly, I do. As a matter of fact I'm not lying to you. Look. >> Then the bigger problem, when the officer runs her name, nothing comes back. She insists she has a valid license from the state. But if that were true, it would show up in the system. Having no identification on you is not by itself a crime. Driving when the state has no valid license on record for you is. The officer keeps checking anyway because he wants to give her the benefit of the doubt. >> to that? >> The answer finally comes back and it is not good. The car is neither registered nor insured and her license is suspended. Driving on a suspended license is a misdemeanor in most states. Add an unregistered and uninsured vehicle, and one rolling stop has turned into several separate violations. >> All right, here's your information back, okay? Listen. The car's obviously not registered or insured. You have a suspended license. >> No, no, no, no. Wait, it can't be suspended. I just paid it on Thursday. >> me talk to you first. >> I'm sorry. Go ahead. >> Okay. Our information comes straight from the DMV, okay? So, whatever it shows whatever it shows is what it is what it is what it shows, okay? >> But I went to court and paid $480. >> So, that right now so then if that's the case, there may be a discrepancy with the DMV. I don't know. Do you have the receipt on you? >> No, I don't have it on me, but I paid $480 last Thursday. >> our system shows is what I have to go by, okay? So, you have too many things wrong with the car. >> Here's the part that catches a lot of people. She is certain her license is fine because she paid $480 in court just days earlier. But paying a fine in court and getting your license reinstated are two different steps. The court closes the case. The motor vehicle department clears the license, and that is often a separate trip, a separate fee, and a few days to update. Until it does, the system still reads suspended. >> like that. What I will recommend though is >> Wait, I I I need to get my computer. >> If you're planning to keep this car, like if you use it >> Oh, no, no, I'm not going to use it. He was supposed to sell it. >> what I'm saying is what I would what I would say is if you plan on using this car like >> for yourself in the future, >> Yeah. >> and you go to and you're going to court if you bring registration insurance on the car and have your license fixed before you go to court, it looks better. The judge might be a little bit more lenient with you. >> Okay. >> Okay. So, just a heads-up. Okay. >> Yeah, but I'm going to have to bring him the receipt that I paid for. >> Yeah. Okay. Yeah, just bring it to court. Well, I'm going to I'm going to fill out that paperwork right now and then we're just going to hang out and then I'll give you The car gets towed because an uninsured and unregistered vehicle cannot stay on the road. But notice how it is handled. The officers offer her a ride and before they go, one of them gives her honest advice. Fix the registration, the insurance, and the license before her court date. >> few months. >> And the judge may go easier on her. 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