Law enforcement officials in Central Texas hope the arrest of a man
accused of selling a fake Texas temporary license plate could lead to
more information about who is behind a series of Facebook ads
advertising bogus tags for sale.
The arrest comes as welcome news for a Fort Worth car dealer, whose
company name has been used on fictitious tags that the dealership did
not issue.
As NBC 5 Investigates has reported, numerous ads
seen on Facebook Marketplace in recent months have offered fraudulent
tags containing the name of a Fort Worth car dealer, Powerplay Motors.
But the license numbers that appear on those tags were not issued by
Powerplay.