A 29-year-old woman driving without a license lied about her name to a police officer, then lied two more times about her date of birth before she was arrested, according to the police account of the incident.
Darien police described the traffic stop this way (none of the accusations have been proven in court):
At 4:25 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 12, a police officer saw a 2012 Nissan Altima with extremely dark tinted windows enter Interstate 95 at the Exit 12 interchange. The officer followed the car and stopped it.
The driver, a Norwalk woman, said she was driving her boyfriend’s car and didn’t know anything about the tinted windows. She said her driver’s license was at home.
When asked for her name, she gave the officer her sister’s name and a date of birth. The name and date of birth was checked by computer, which said the two didn’t match.
Police officers then checked the name with similar birthdates and did find a match — to a person whose license was suspended. (The woman later told police that that was her sister — whose license was suspended.)
The woman said she might have given police the wrong date of birth and gave them a new date — June 24, 1986. That also didn’t work.
She gave police consent to search the car. In her purse, police found a copy of the woman’s birth certificate (May 2, 1986) and she admitted that the name on it is hers. She said she lied to police because her own driver’s license had been suspended in 2012.
The woman was charged with interfering with a police officer and criminal impersonation. The police account didn’t say that she was charged with driving without a license or whether a ticket was issued regarding glass tinted too darkly (the car was registered to a man in Stamford).
She later posted a $2,500 bond and is scheduled to appear Monday, Dec. 21 in state Superior Court in Stamford.