A Gainesville woman found herself behind bars Sunday after a Marion County sheriff’s deputy pulled her over at the Summerfield Wal-Mart.
The deputy was conducting traffic enforcement outside the store when he saw a gray Chrysler Town & Country drive past him. A query of the vehicle’s license plate came back registered to a 2010 Ford sedan owned by 34-year-old Ebony Shenell McCray, so the deputy conducted a traffic stop in the Wal-Mart parking lot.
McCray told the deputy that she purchased the Chrysler in Williston and had not had the “opportunity” to register the vehicle. She said she had been driving the car knowing that it wasn’t registered and she didn’t have proper insurance. And she admitted to attaching the license plate from her 2010 Ford to the Chrysler so she could “get around,” the report says.
After the deputy confirmed that the Chrysler wasn’t registered, he placed McCray under arrest and transported her to the Marion County Jail, where she was charged with attaching a license plate that’s not assigned to a vehicle and failure to register a motor vehicle.
McCray, who lives at 1723 NE 8th Ave., Apt. E4, in Gainesville, was released Sunday afternoon on $1,000 bond. Her court date hasn’t been set, jail records show.
