Police Holds Captive 38-Year-Old Woman For Impersonating Daughter During Routine Traffic Stop

A 38-year-old Utah woman, named Heather Garcia, was arrested Saturday after she impersonated her 21-year-old daughter during a routine traffic halt. The Police have also claimed that she was driving without a valid license or a license plate.

Garcia was locked up in Davis Country jail on charges including providing false personal information to a peace officer after she was reportedly caught hiding her true identity from the authorities to shun detention for outstanding warrants.

Garcia was driving a silver BMW when she veered into the main street in Farmington to escape the reach of a Davis country police officer who noticed the absence of a license plate on her vehicle, according to Fox News. The police also recovered drug paraphernalia and a white powdery substance during the search of her car.

Garcia was busted for identifying herself as Mercedes, her daughter who was born in the year 1998. She tried to evade criminal charges by hiding behind the identity of her daughter who is 17 years younger. Police soon found out the Garcia posed as her daughter to hoodwink them and issued warrants for her arrest.

The charges against her were providing false personal information to an on-duty officer, possessing a controlled substance, drug paraphernalia, and driving with a terminated license.

In May, a Kearns man, Christopher Eugene Hooper, who had admitted to carrying a loaded firearm and methamphetamine was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. He was arrested by two members of Operation Rio Grande Drug Task Force in February 2018.

In another incident which was reported in February 2019, another Utah woman was arrested and put behind the bars by the police after they found marijuana, marijuana edibles, and meth in her car. She was stopped by a Canadian Country Sheriff’s Deputy on patrol as he suspected something amiss when she was driving her Chevrolet Sonic in lanes near mile maker 118.