{"id":227381,"date":"2026-06-25T01:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227381\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T01:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:18:07","slug":"truck-driver-and-supervisor-face-72-charges-for-evasion-of-pennsylvania-turnpike-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227381\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck driver and supervisor face 72 charges for evasion of Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dozens of charges were filed this week against two men for semi truck toll evasion on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.<\/p>\n

On June 23, 2026, Pennsylvania authorities filed 72 charges against Ashon Harris, 23, and Shawn Harris, 46.<\/p>\n

Each man was charged with one count of theft of services, one count of corrupt organizations, and 70 counts of fare evasion.<\/p>\n

The charges stem from a traffic stop that took place on I-83 in York County, Pennsylvania, on July 15, 2025.<\/p>\n

According to an affidavit obtained by WHTM<\/a>, Ashon Harris was driving a Freightliner truck with attached trailer when he was stopped by a Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) trooper for a piece of paper obscuring the vehicle\u2019s license plate.<\/p>\n

The truck was inspected at a nearby weigh station. The inspection uncovered that the truck had no registration displayed. Additionally, twenty-one violations were found during the inspection, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n

The trooper said that Ashon Harris was on the phone with supervisor Shawn Harris during the inspection.<\/p>\n

The affidavit further alleges that Ashon Harris was involved in a crash earlier in July 2025, and at the time he was cited for fare evasion for an obscured license plate.<\/p>\n

Officials said that the truck Harris was operating made around 70 trips on the Pennsylvania Turnpike worth between August 15, 2024, and July 15, 2025.<\/p>\n

The fare evasions allegedly cost the Pennsylvania Turnpike $16,097.74 in lost tolls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of charges were filed this week against two men for semi truck toll evasion on the Pennsylvania…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-227381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}