Don't Mess With Texas! (toll booths, that is!)

Woman Owes More Than $76,000 In Toll Booth
Charges


POSTED: 9:36 am CST November 2, 2005
UPDATED: 11:57 am CST November
3, 2005


FORT WORTH, Texas -- A woman faces criminal charges after being
arrested for not stopping at toll booths more than 2,900 times.
Evangelina
Sanchez Gonzalez, 41, may be the most notorious toll booth runner in North Texas
and has amassed fines of more than $76,000.
"I would say nothing (to all the
people who pay their tolls)," Gonzalez said.
During the 20 months that
officials said Gonzalez ran through the booths, she would have paid about $1,800
in tolls. Now, she owes more than 42 times that amount with the addition of
fines and penalties.


Toll authorities said Gonzalez continued
committing similar offenses after she had been arrested for running toll booths.
Not paying the toll is a Class-C misdemeanor.
The North Texas Tollway
Authority estimates that 35,000 drivers out of 1 million daily transactions do
not pay when passing through the tollbooths.
Gonzalez was arrested in
October and was released pending trial.

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