By Bill Galluccio
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Officials in Philadelphia are reminding residents that it is illegal to obscure your license plate. The warning comes after the police impounded a car with a remote-controlled license plate flipper.
The high-tech flipper allows a driver to switch their licenses plate so they can fool the city's red-light cameras or evade detection by the police. A Houston man was caught in 2019 using one to avoid paying automated tolls.
Captain
John Ryan, the commanding officer of the Philadelphia Police Major Crimes Unit, told
"If you drive around, you notice there's paper tags everywhere, and many of them aren't legitimate because they can be copied on a copier or print it off on a computer," he said.