A New Jersey man was arrested Thursday while trying to board a plane to Aruba at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Police say 34-year-old, Lester Morales, of Little Ferry, has been charged with theft of services for racking up more than a million dollars in unpaid tolls and fees through E-ZPass.
An investigation found Morales’ trucking company, EAB Transport LLC/Do it Right Trucking, was using a delinquent E-ZPass account for over a year.
Police say Morales had trucks driving through tolls more than a hundred times per day using the delinquent account.
Morales is being held without bail at the Middlesex County Jail.
(Source: WABC)
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If the state cannot get its due tolls from a Morales, how could we expect those people to pay for the whole wall?
How do you accumulate that????
Most of it are those stupid administrative fees. But still. Amazing
WOW! that is quite a debt to pay off!
Re comment no. 1: Funniest racist comment of all time. I like it.
As an E-Z pass holder, I presume I and all other holders are picking up the slack for Mr. Morales’s default. I do not understand why the E-Z pass folks are so lax in their collection efforts. Surely there is technology that would allow them to corral Mr. M’s trucks when they attempt to go through E-Z pass lanes. And those trucks have value. The fees can be collected out of the proceeds of the sales of those trucks.