Facebook reveals real identity of driver

 

September 20, 2017



A driver was issued three traffic citations after being pulled over by an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper, but he ended up with three more serious charges later.

According to court records on Aug. 13 about 9:10 a.m. Trooper Darrin Lancaster was patrolling south of Cherokee on US-64 in Alfalfa County when he radar checked a vehicle traveling 76 mph in a 54 mph zone. He activated his emergency lights and turned his vehicle around to follow about two miles south of Cherokee. The vehicle continued north without slowing down, and Lancaster caught up with it about 1.25 miles south of Cherokee.

When the vehicle still did not pull over, Lancaster activated the siren. The vehicle slowed down and started to pull off the roadway but continued on north. The vehicle pulled into the parking lot of the Dollar General store on the south edge of Cherokee.

Lancaster ordered the driver out of the 2010 Chevrolet pickup and asked for his driver’s license and insurance verification. The driver said he did not have his license on him and could not show proof of current insurance. He told Lancaster his name was Taylor Edward Reynolds and gave his date of birth. According to records in the case, the driver told Lancaster he did not pull over because he was scared and felt better pulling over in the parking lot. His name, date of birth and address given checked to a valid driver’s license.

Lancaster gave Reynolds traffic citations for failure to yield to emergency vehicle, failure to carry security verification form and operating a vehicle without driver’s license in immediate possession. In each case, the driver accepted the forms verifying the name printed on the citations.

Later that day, believing the driver might have given false information, Lancaster accessed Facebook where he pulled up Taylor Reynolds and realized this was not the man he stopped. However, he saw a photo of a friend listed as Tanner Reynolds who was the driver he had stopped. Lancaster contacted the Alfalfa County District Attorney’s Office and asked them to hold off on filing the traffic tickets.

Later that week, Lancaster called the phone number given by the driver. Lancaster asked the person on the phone for his name, but the person wanted to know who was calling. Lancaster identified himself as Trooper Lancaster, and the other party said he was Taylor Reynolds. Lancaster told him he needed to come to the Alfalfa County District Attorney’s office and bring his driver’s license for identification. The subject then hung up.

Lancaster was contacted by the Alfalfa County DA’s office and told Taylor Reynolds was in the office wanting to talk to him. Lancaster met with Reynolds who said his brother told him Sept. 1 that he had given Lancaster his information. He told Lancaster his brother Tanner had done this before in Garfield County. Lancaster checked information on Tanner Ray Reynolds and found his driving status is revoked.

On Sept. 12 in Alfalfa County, Tanner Ray Reynolds, 22, of Waukomis was charged with falsely personating another to create a liability, a felony. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.

On the same date he was charged with two misdemeanors of obstructing an officer and driving with license revoked. Three traffic tickets were also filed against Tanner Reynolds: speeding 11-14 mph over, failure to carry insurance verification and failure to yield to emergency vehicle.

A check of online records reveals that Tanner Reynolds was charged with a misdemeanor of driving with license revoked on March 14 in Garfield County. On May 22 in Garfield County he was issued a traffic citation for operating a motor vehicle without being licensed or with expired driver’s license. Then on Sept. 11 Tanner Reynolds was charged with falsely impersonating another to create a liability, a felony. He was arrested on Sept. 12 in Garfield County and posted a $2,000 bond on Sept. 13.

 

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