{"id":316354,"date":"2026-08-07T21:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316354\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:50:12","slug":"nice-try-new-york-state-police-point-out-driver-who-had-fake-inspection-sticker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316354\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nice try&#8217;: New York State Police point out driver who had fake inspection sticker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOMER, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police issued a Syracuse man several traffic tickets after troopers determined the driver had a fraudulent inspection sticker on their windshield.<\/p>\n<p>The state police said on Aug. 6, around 11:54 a.m., a trooper pulled over a 2013 Subaru Legacy on Interstate 81 in the Town of Homer for committing traffic violations.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation determined that the Subaru did not have a valid inspection sticker. The police said NYS Department of Motor Vehicle records showed the vehicle\u2019s inspection had expired in 2024.  However, the vehicle displayed what appeared to be a valid inspection sticker affixed to the windshield.<\/p>\n<p>The state determined the sticker was fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If your vehicle inspection is expired, putting a fake sticker on your windshield is not legal,&#8221; the state police said on Facebook. &#8220;Nice try, but we check.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The police noted that the driver&#8217;s license was revoked.<\/p>\n<p>The Subaru was impounded, the police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOMER, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police issued a Syracuse man several traffic tickets after troopers determined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-316354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}