Man, 90, racks up speeding tickets thanks to thief who stole license plate

John Maffucci hasn't pushed in NYC half a decade, however he retains getting tickets courtesy of whoever stole his license plate.
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A 90-year-old veteran and retired jail official says he hasn’t pushed a automotive in New York Metropolis in half a decade — but he’s nonetheless racking up dashing tickets right here due to a scofflaw who stole his license plate.

“This man’s operating round with my plate and no matter occurs, it comes again to me. I didn’t do something!” fumed John J. Maffucci, a sailor through the Korean Conflict.

“I’m at his mercy. I watch the mail day-after-day pondering, ‘Oh God, what's he going to do at this time?’ “

John Maffucci seems to be by means of infractions paperwork for visitors crimes he didn’t commit.

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Maffucci’s entrance license plate went lacking after he struck a deer along with his Honda in January 2020, he mentioned. Each he and a state Trooper looked for plate BDX-6081 and couldn’t discover it, so Maffucci bought new license plates from the state Division of Motor Automobiles.

The primary dashing ticket confirmed up within the mail at his Westchester dwelling about 16 months later.

He reported the theft to state police, however the tickets — not less than 5 to this point — hold coming, mentioned Maffucci, who contends nobody within the metropolis is bothering to examine state data to see if the plate was misplaced or stolen.

“I’m at his mercy,” Maffucci fumed.

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“I don’t suppose what occurred is correct,” mentioned his lawyer, Donald Lee Singer, who filed a lawsuit towards town on Maffucci’s behalf in Manhattan Supreme Court docket.

Maffucci has efficiently overwhelmed many of the tickets, however says one choose inexplicably discovered him responsible for dashing within the Todt Hill part of Staten Island in October.

“The final one someone discovered me responsible — based mostly upon what? You had all of the proof,” he mentioned.

Maffucci has spent his life conserving tabs on the dangerous guys: he was a parole officer who labored his manner up the state Parole Board within the Nineteen Eighties. He additionally served because the Westchester County Commissioner of Corrections earlier than spending a long time as a non-public investigator, creator and screenwriter.

However now, he’s the one handcuffed, by forms.

“My God, it’s been so apparent what’s happening,” he mentioned. “Anyone’s utilizing a stolen plate and no person’s doing something. God I inform ya, none of those folks would have labored for me, not in one million years. In the event that they did they wouldn’t final lengthy.”