Bronx trucker charged with ducking $13,000 in GWB tolls

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A trucker wanted for ducking $13,000 in tolls told Port Authority police that he “wanted to save money” when they caught him at the George Washington Bridge earlier today.

Photo Credit: *Courtesy PORT AUTHORITY PD*

Jerry DeMarco

05/09/2015 1:40 a.m.

Kerron D. Maittia, 38, of the Bronx was after the license plate on his 1996 Kenworth truck registered a hit for officers on the lookout for evaders as it passed through the GWB upper toll plaza stopped at 9 a.m., the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight.

Maittia, who’d racked up no fewer than 100 violations,
was using a passenger car EZPass transponder, which shorted the Port Authority by $80 or more each time, Pentangelo said.

“Records show he committed two mismatch violations a day,” he said.

Maittia was charged with theft of services and six counts of toll evasion.

IMAGES: Courtesy PORT AUTHORITY PD

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