About a month after his car was stolen a ticket from a $150.00 D.C. speeding camera came in the mail.
WASHINGTON — A Maryland man says he’s on the hook for a D.C. speeding ticket that was clocked when an alleged thief was driving his stolen car.
“Park my car on Friday, go out, and then Saturday…it’s just not there,” James Pidus said.
Pildus’s car was gone, and his trouble was just starting.
About a month after his car was stolen, a ticket from a $150.00 D.C. speeding camera came in the mail.
“The car was stolen about a week or so before the ticket,” Pildus said. “You know, I figured, ‘Okay, well, it’s an automatic system. I just need to show them the police report, and that’ll be the end of that.'”
But it wasn’t. Pidus tried to contest the ticket, but the DMV wanted more information.
A department spokesperson for the DMV tells WUSA9 the hearing examiner gave Pildus ten additional days to provide a police report that included the vehicle make, vehicle identification number, and license plate number.
And says they have no record he ever did that.
The plates and make of the car are visible on the ticket. And James says he gave them the VIN.
But, he says the hearing examiner wanted more.