What is the name of your state? Minnesota
I was dating someone up until the beginning of December, however while I was in the relationship the tabs on my car expired. I had chosen not to renew the tabs as I had been looking at trading it within a week of the expiration for a new car. Well, the breakup was not the smoothest one for us. Two weeks ago today, I went to Little Falls to pickup my kids from my ex-wife with my new car. Prior to this, I had taken my kids down there with the vehicle that had expired tabs. But when I got home from dropping the kids off I had a new car sitting at my parents that was given to me for christmas. While I was at the gas station putting gas in my car, and getting the kids situated in the car, the local police officer pulled up and stated that he couldn't see my license plate when I passed him on the highway. Well, I showed him that I had the temporary tag in the back window and that the dealer plates were on the car covering the plates that had expired tabs as well...he stated that cleared that up, than he proceeded to ask me my name which I told him (although i didn't know at the time what that mattered)...than he asked for my drivers license which didn't make sense to me at that point since he didn't state further as to why he was inquiring all this information, but i complied and handed him my license. I than informed him I was going to go in and pay for my gas while he ran my drivers license. Which was fine with him, I than came out of the gas station with another officer standing there and they asked me if i knew of a warrant. I didn not know about a warrant being issued for me. I than became really curious and wondered why they asked. Before they continued on, the officers asked to move my car with the kids in it so my kids wouldn't see what was going on. I gave him permission and he moved the car, than the first officer asked me to step to the back of his car where he patted me down, than stated to me that he got an anonymous tip that i was driving a vehicle with expired tabs, which 3 days prior i was..i stated that i did previously own a vehicle with expired tabs but that i had gotten the current vehicle recently for a gift. He than told me to call and see if someone could come get my kids, because while i was in the gas station he ran my driving record and found the warrant and had to take me to the station if i could not come up with $325 cash bail right there. Mind you, my license was not suspended prior to him looking at my driving record. My question is, did they have any legal right to look at my driving record if they were not stopping me for anything? other than the tip of expired tabs which was proven not to be a problem? I did go and sit in booking for just over an hour while my parents drove from brainerd to bail me out. Please tell me, can I fight the warrant based on the grounds the officer had no reason to look at my driving record once he established that the tip was incorrect and that my license was not suspended? during the initial conversation he had with me, he never stated why he was even checking me? he didn't tell me of the tip being called in until we were leaving the gas station and heading to the jail...i have to appear in court a week from today on the warrant to plead my case and find out what further fines are owed yet..i do recall getting a ticket last spring for speeding and suspended license, which the suspension was taken care of the next morning..can i also, have the driving after suspension charge dropped if there is a possibility since i took care of the suspension fine within 24 hrs of being stopped? i did not know of the suspension in crow wing county prior to the stop last spring. I feel that the police had no reason to investigate me further in any capacity once they resolved the tip and found i was not driving a vehicle with expired tabs that nite.
I was dating someone up until the beginning of December, however while I was in the relationship the tabs on my car expired. I had chosen not to renew the tabs as I had been looking at trading it within a week of the expiration for a new car. Well, the breakup was not the smoothest one for us. Two weeks ago today, I went to Little Falls to pickup my kids from my ex-wife with my new car. Prior to this, I had taken my kids down there with the vehicle that had expired tabs. But when I got home from dropping the kids off I had a new car sitting at my parents that was given to me for christmas. While I was at the gas station putting gas in my car, and getting the kids situated in the car, the local police officer pulled up and stated that he couldn't see my license plate when I passed him on the highway. Well, I showed him that I had the temporary tag in the back window and that the dealer plates were on the car covering the plates that had expired tabs as well...he stated that cleared that up, than he proceeded to ask me my name which I told him (although i didn't know at the time what that mattered)...than he asked for my drivers license which didn't make sense to me at that point since he didn't state further as to why he was inquiring all this information, but i complied and handed him my license. I than informed him I was going to go in and pay for my gas while he ran my drivers license. Which was fine with him, I than came out of the gas station with another officer standing there and they asked me if i knew of a warrant. I didn not know about a warrant being issued for me. I than became really curious and wondered why they asked. Before they continued on, the officers asked to move my car with the kids in it so my kids wouldn't see what was going on. I gave him permission and he moved the car, than the first officer asked me to step to the back of his car where he patted me down, than stated to me that he got an anonymous tip that i was driving a vehicle with expired tabs, which 3 days prior i was..i stated that i did previously own a vehicle with expired tabs but that i had gotten the current vehicle recently for a gift. He than told me to call and see if someone could come get my kids, because while i was in the gas station he ran my driving record and found the warrant and had to take me to the station if i could not come up with $325 cash bail right there. Mind you, my license was not suspended prior to him looking at my driving record. My question is, did they have any legal right to look at my driving record if they were not stopping me for anything? other than the tip of expired tabs which was proven not to be a problem? I did go and sit in booking for just over an hour while my parents drove from brainerd to bail me out. Please tell me, can I fight the warrant based on the grounds the officer had no reason to look at my driving record once he established that the tip was incorrect and that my license was not suspended? during the initial conversation he had with me, he never stated why he was even checking me? he didn't tell me of the tip being called in until we were leaving the gas station and heading to the jail...i have to appear in court a week from today on the warrant to plead my case and find out what further fines are owed yet..i do recall getting a ticket last spring for speeding and suspended license, which the suspension was taken care of the next morning..can i also, have the driving after suspension charge dropped if there is a possibility since i took care of the suspension fine within 24 hrs of being stopped? i did not know of the suspension in crow wing county prior to the stop last spring. I feel that the police had no reason to investigate me further in any capacity once they resolved the tip and found i was not driving a vehicle with expired tabs that nite.