STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Janine Mulé, an Annadale resident, looks after her 91-year-old father, Nicholas Mattia.

One day in October 2024, she was sorting through her dad’s mail when she came upon a ticket. While many on Staten Island have been caught by speed cameras going just a little too fast, something didn’t add up.

Mattia, a Rossville resident, rarely drives his car, using it predominantly to take a trip to Walgreens or church. And strangely, she noticed, although the license plates on the ticket matched up, the vehicle make did not.

Hundreds of tickets

“When I first got the first ticket I went to Motor Vehicle because I just assumed it was Motor Vehicle’s screw up, because there were two of the same plates out there, so that’s what I thought,” Mulé said. “I went and they verified t

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