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California woman busted for comically fake license plate on stolen car

A California woman was busted for duct tapin𓄧g a comically forged license plate in the bacꦗk of an allegedly stolen car.

The driver, Angel Rachiene Bolton 38♚, was arrested early Friday morning by cops in Benicia, Calif., for brazenly hand-writing license plate numbers with a thick-black marker on what appears to be pri🏅nter paper and taping it to the back of a silver Kia Rio LX.

“We k🐻now we are not superheroes, but just FYI this is NOT a way to get one over on us,” the

“At about 1 a.m. today, one of our officers was patrollin🌊g the area of 5000 bl🍸ock of East 2nd Street when he saw this beautifully handwritten license plate on a car. A quick check of the vehicle showed that it was reported stolen out of Alameda.”

The numbers on the right side of the mocked up “plate” were somewhat smaller than those on the left — apparently because the artist ran out of room trying to squeeze them in.

To make m𒅌🃏atters worse, the counterfeit plate’s tags were expired.

In the top right corner of the plate was penned “JAN 202☂3,” where the expiration d♎ate on a real registration sticker would be.

Stolen Car with fraudulent license plate.
The poorly forged “license plate” had tags that were expired. Benicia Police Department

Bolton was arrested without incident and taken to Solano💫 County Jail, police said. She was charged with felony possession of a stolen vehicle and mi🤡sdemeanor possession of “unlawful paraphernalia,”

She could not be reached for comment Saturday.

Her arrest was .

A passenger, a 30-year-old m🐷an from Alameda whom police did not immediately identify, was also arrested andbo꧂oked for possessing a controlled substance, allegedly a narcotics pipe.

Police said the passenger hadꦏ three out-of-county warrants out for his arrest, the .