03/11/2024 - 08/22/2925, within a year and half, NY polices conducted 5,343 vehicles towed in 100 joint ghost car operations, resulting in 1,055 arrests, and more than 46,000 summonses!
01/01/2025 - 08/22/2025. Nearly $12M in unpaid tolls and fees were recovered.
Between March and April of 2025, OID investigators surveyed more than 3,500 parked vehicles across 50 square blocks in 10 police precincts. These precincts were chosen due to the high percentage of summonses issued to out-of-state license plates!
Among the vehicles of outstate license plates, one in four either had a ghost plates that did not match the vehicle registration, or no plates at all. Most ghost plate drivers are NY residents or from its surrounding areas!
This investigation just discovered a tip of a iceberg! The actual data is believed to be much higher than that!