Arrest Made In Rossville

Report from Rossville Police Dept.

February 23rd, 2018 near US 24 & Pearl in Rossville at approximately 7pm: The on-duty Rossville Officer witnessed an SUV towing a pickup on a car trailer drive westbound from the Casey’s Convenience Store parking lot with an illegal white tail light (instead of red). The SUV was stopped just west of the Cross Creek bridge. The tag and registration were found to be both expired and from a totally different vehicle. The illegal 2018 registration decal was defaced to conceal that it was from a third separate vehicle. A Silver Lake Police Officer was requested to respond for backup. Further investigation revealed the tag on the trailer was not valid and it was from a different trailer as well. The vehicle being towed on the trailer for sale that night in Junction City was not in the suspect’s name and was registered to another person although the suspect believed he could sell it as abandoned. The suspect had no proof of insurance, no proof of ownership of either of the vehicles or the trailer, no valid tags or registrations, and an extensive criminal history. The suspect faces multiple misdemeanor registration and traffic charges in Rossville Municipal Court. The tags were seized as evidence and the vehicles and trailer towed away by a wrecker service pending release with valid proof of ownership. The suspect was not from the local area and neither the vehicles nor the trailer were reported as stolen at the time of the incident.