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 Levert Caldwell III, 42, of Tinton Falls, N.J., is accused of racking up more than $20,000 in E-ZPass tolls and fees. (Photo: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department) 
 
 STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A man who potentially had not paid his bridge tolls in more than six years was arrested earlier this week and charged with larceny, authorities said Wednesday. 
 
 Levert Caldwell III, 42, of Tinton Falls, N.J., was stopped at around 9 a.m. ET Tuesday after his vehicle failed to post payment shortly after going over the Outerbridge Crossing here, according to a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey news release. 
 
 Caldwell owes more than $20,000 in E-ZPass tolls and fees, the port authority said. It wasn't immediately known whether he had an E-ZPass in his sport-utility vehicle. 
 
 At $12.50 a trip during peak travel hours, Caldwell would have racked up $62.50 a week or $3,250 annually with no time for vacation just for this commute, $2 less in off-peak hours; the cash toll is $15, or $3,900 a year driving five times a week. Drivers heading from Staten Island to Perth Amboy, N.J., don't pay tolls. 
 
 The registration and insurance on Caldwell's grey Jeep Grand Cherokee also were expired and the vehicle was impounded, port authority officials said. 
 
 Additionally, Caldwell was charged with obstructing government administration and a traffic violation. 
 
 In June, port authority police arrested seven drivers in a crackdown on the George Washington Bridge, saying that they owed a total of more than $200,000 in unpaid tolls and fees. Tolls are the same on both bridges. 
 
 In 2012, the port authority was so frustrated with toll cheats in its gateless E-ZPass lanes that it posted the names of almost 40 violators on its website in what it dubbed its Wall of Shame. 
 
 The online list is gone now, but officials sued at least 20 car owners because of unpaid bills, including Jean Davis, then 75, of Englewood, N.J., whose 50-year-old son, Peter Davis, skipped out on tolls 3,316 times over six years on the George Washington Bridge and left her on the hook for $123,000. 
 
 In those cases, cameras on the bridges and tunnels captured the license plate numbers of vehicles that passed through the E-ZPass lanes without paying and sent notifications to owners using states' motor-vehicle information. 
 
 Contributing: Shawn Boburg, The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record. Follow Mike Davis on Twitter: @byMikeDavis 
 
 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/2cfHXEy ||||| An eagle-eyed cop hit the scofflaw jackpot after pulling over a motorist for a routine infraction — and discovering the driver had more than $12,000 in unpaid tolls and penalties, official said Wednesday. 
 
 Oscar Sanchez, 45, was headed east into the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City on Tuesday afternoon when Port Authority Police Officer Tomasz Grel noticed he didn’t have a front license plate and traveled through an E-ZPass lane as the “toll unpaid” sign lit up, authorities said. 
 
 Sanchez’s 2001 Mercedes-Benz was pulled over and Grel found that the suspect didn’t have an E-ZPass in his window, officials said. Sanchez insisted that he still pays tolls, even without the E-ZPass, saying, “I don’t have it (an E-ZPass device) but they always charge my tag,” according to the Port Authority. 
 
 But a routine driver’s license check showed that Sanchez was wanted for allegedly beating local bridge and tunnel tolls 204 times, officials said. That added up to $2,771 in unpaid tolls and $10,200 in penalties. 
 
 The Jersey City resident Sanchez was arrested and charged with alleged theft of service, driving without a front license plate and driving with a suspended license. Sanchez had a valid New York license but records showed his New Jersey driving privileges had been suspended. 
 
 He was released without bail and ordered to appear in a Jersey City courtroom on Tuesday of next week. ||||| A New Jersey woman was arrested, accused of failing to pay tolls on her EZ Pass account.Port Authority Police said they tried to stop the suspect after they learned her EZ Pass account owed more than $16,000.00According to the Port Authority Police Department, on Wednesday, Denise Simien, 55, of Verona, N.J., was driving a 2007 Toyota SUV and ignored police instructions to stop.Police said she eventually was pulled over by another Port Authority officer near the Holland Tunnel entrance.Simien is accused of failing to pay EZ Pass tolls at Port Authority crossings more than 250 times with a total amount owed of $16,633.She was charged with theft of services and obstruction of justice, and is due back in Jersey City Court July 19.
– Authorities in New York and New Jersey have arrested a trio of scofflaws for allegedly racking up more than $130,000 in unpaid tolls and fines, the New York Daily News reports. Denise Simien was the most recent suspect to be nabbed. Authorities say she took the Holland Tunnel more than 500 times without paying the toll (though WABC puts the number closer to 250), racking up more than $16,000 in unpaid tolls and fees. The 55-year-old New Jersey woman allegedly added one more to her tally, attempting to flee police through the Holland Tunnel on Wednesday…without paying the toll, the Jersey Journal reports. Earlier this month, authorities arrested 34-year-old Willie Reyes and 45-year-old Spirdon Fragoulis for racking up unpaid tolls and fees on their E-Z Passes. Authorities say Reyes owes more than $37,000. Tow-truck driver Fragoulis allegedly failed to pay his tolls 850 times and owes more than $78,000. "These motorists are the most prolific that we have seen at this time," a spokesperson for the Port Authority tells the Daily News. "When we have repeat offenders the Port Authority makes even greater effort to crackdown."