{"id":320540,"date":"2026-08-13T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320540\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:06:09","slug":"pulled-over-driver-tried-to-swap-seats-with-passenger-as-trooper-approached-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320540\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulled over driver tried to swap seats with passenger as trooper approached, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PREBLE, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police said a man who was pulled over tried to switch seats with a passenger as the trooper approached his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 11, around 2:23 a.m., a trooper saw a BMW sedan on I-81 in the Town of Preble, Cortland County, N.Y., speeding on the road. The trooper pulled the driver, Travis R. Walcott, 31, of Oswego, over.<\/p>\n<p>The police said that as the trooper approached Walcott&#8217;s vehicle,  the trooper saw Walcott try to move into the passenger seat while a 36-year-old woman tried to get into the driver&#8217;s seat from the back seat.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/cnycentral.com\/news\/local\/nice-try-new-york-state-police-point-out-driver-who-had-fake-inspection-sticker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Nice try&#8217;: New York State Police point out driver who had fake inspection sticker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trooper noticed that Walcott was impaired when they spoke to him. A sobriety test then confirmed he was impaired, the police said.<\/p>\n<p>Walcott was charged with operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, obstructing governmental administration in the second degree and aggravated unlicensed operation in the third degree. All of the charges are misdemeanors.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was not charged.<\/p>\n<p>Walcott was issued appearance tickets to the Preble Town Court for Sept. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PREBLE, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police said a man who was pulled over tried to switch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-320540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320540","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=320540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}