Toll booth runner accumulates $76,000 in fines
A woman is facing criminal charges after being arrested for not stopping at toll booths more than 2,900 times, police said.
Authorities said Evangelina Sanchez Gonzalez, 41, may be the most notorious toll-booth runner in North Texas, amassing fines of more than $76,000.
Over the 20 months that officials said Gonzalez ran through the booths, she would have paid roughly $1,800 in tolls. Now, she owes more than 42 times that amount with the addition of fines and penalties.
Not paying the toll is a Class-C misdemeanor.
The North Texas Tollway Authority estimates that 35,000 drivers out of one million daily transactions do not pay when passing through the toll booths.
Gonzalez was arrested in October and was released pending trial.
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Why wasn’t she stopped after running the booth about a dozen times? They must have had photos of her licence
plate – go arrest her!
Comment by Wayne — January 27, 2006 @ 4:56