On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:07 AM, John <john.harvey@shelbynet.com> wrote:

> I thought y'all might find one of our LPR arrests interesting. The arrest

> was all precipitated on an expired tag.

>

> On 02/28/10 at 11:38 hours, officer(s) C Leatherwood (11329) and W Horn

> (2671) initiated a traffic stop at Cleveland/Galloway and Compl:

> Leatherwood, Cory advised While on routine patrol on 02/28/10 Ofc C

> Leatherwood (11329) car 446B observed a positive hit on p#4498's LPR system

> for expired tags on TN plate 629XXX registered to a 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix.

> Ofc observed a silver Pontiac Grand Prix bearing TN 629XXX driving w/b Union

> in which the tag displayed a 2010 orange sticker. Ofc initiated a traffic

> stop with blue lights only on the Krystal's parking lot near Union/Cleveland

> and asked dispatcher for a QV and registration on the tag. While ofc was

> waiting for the dispatcher's response Def pulled through the Krystal's

> parking and turned s/b Pine, At this point, Def was not fleeing Ofc, he just

> had not pulled over to the curb. As ofc pulled on to Pine and got behind the

> vehicle, def disregarded the stop sign at Pine/Eastmoreland continuing s/b

> on Pine at no more than the posted speed limit. Def turned w/b on Vance then

> n/b on Cleveland and at this time ofc initiated the siren and advised

> dispatch def was refusing to stop.