Police: Driver gave fake name
A Uniondale woman stopped on suspicion of speeding on the Meadowbrook Parkway in East Garden City on Monday faces charges of criminal impersonation and obstruction after she gave police a false name to conceal she was driving with a suspended license, State Police said.
Charmaine Morales, 38, gave police her sister's name after she was pulled over at about 8 p.m. while driving north near Stewart Avenue, police said. Morales was driving her blue Toyota at 76 mph in a posted 55 mph zone, according to a news release.
She was arrested and is charged with criminal impersonation, obstruction, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and speeding.
She is scheduled to appear at First District Court in Hempstead on Sept. 28.
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