On Tuesday this week, the police charged a 69-year-old driver with both forgery and false reporting in a case of a manipulated number plate.
A routine check put an end to a 69-year-old driver from West Zealand on Friday last week. Initially because the patrol could not look up the man's number plate in the system.
A closer examination of the number plate then also revealed several criminal matters. The number plate was not just manipulated.
It was also on a car that had been reported stolen. Even by the 69-year-old himself. However, he had since tried to drive on in the car by changing the number three to '8' on the license plate.
This is what the South Zealand and Lolland-Falster Police write in the police report .
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The police do not say whether the 69-year-old was allowed to continue when the true context of the case dawned on them. But on Tuesday this week he was charged with both forgery and false reporting.
Only the first condition can in principle be punished with a fine and up to two years in prison. In particularly serious cases, document forgery can lead to up to six years behind bars.
However, the 69-year-old is not the only one who has recently been offered a prison cell. A 46-year-old Audi owner is going the same way. Or that is to say now former Audi owner. Read more about it here .
