It took months for Texas automobile sales regulators to craft rules aimed at stopping fraudulent temporary tags from hitting the nation’s streets, but it has taken mere days for those new rules to ...

We're nearing the end of the road for the "Paper Tag Nation". In a little more than a month, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles will stop issuing temporary paper license plates following a series ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — An “organized criminal enterprise” accused of cranking out fraudulent vehicle inspections and paper license plates in Austin was recently busted, according to authorities — just as the ...

Part one of this two-part story is in the player above. Part two of this report can be found below. Unscrupulous small car dealers are raking in millions, illegally selling Texas paper license plates ...

LAKEWAY, Texas (KXAN) — Weimar patrol officer Tom Donalson drove two hours to attend an eight-hour buyer’s tag boot camp. In his over 30-year career in law enforcement, he’s never seen anything as big ...

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – The sale of fake license plates is a multi-million-dollar business in Texas. Now Grand Prairie's police chief is hoping to help change the law to permanently get ...

The infamous New Jersey “ghost tag” is heading to the graveyard. New Jersey’s temporary paper tags, typically issued by auto dealers when a new or used vehicle is sold, that were easy to counterfeit ...

Dallas police seized 42 fake paper license plate tags and issued 49 citations Jan. 19, 2022 through an operation with other agencies across southern Dallas. Texas has been at the epicenter of a ...

HOUSTON – If you’ve spent any time driving on Houston roadways, you’ve probably noticed there seem to be more temporary paper license plates. Many of you are asking KPRC 2 Investigates, “Who is ...

HOUSTON – Emmanuel Padilla Reyes, 35, was sentenced to five years in federal prison and ordered to pay $22 million for his role in a large-scale scheme involving fake Texas temporary license plates.