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Carley Williams, 28, of Nashua lied about dying father to get out of speeding ticket was arrested.
When State Trooper Christopher J. Cummings pulled over Williams for going 82mph in a 65mph the New Hampshire woman cried her way out of a speeding ticket.
"I took her driver’s licence and asked a question that I ask everyone I pull over. I asked if there was an emergency,†She told the officer that the reason she was speeding was to get to the hospital to see her father on his deathbed with stage four cancer.
"I'm pretty used to people trying to bend the truth to get out of speeding citations, but this woman preyed on my emotions as a human being," Trooper Christopher J. Cummings told reporters.
"She told me her father had stage four cancer, that he was breathing only six breaths a minute, and that she was trying to make it to the hospital before he passed," he said. "There was a good act that went along with it." "She seemed pretty emotional. It made me believe that this person was legitimately telling me the truth."
Before the officer let her go, he wrote down the name of the hospital and her father’s name.
He did not want to prevent Williams from getting to her father’s bedside in time. Cummings let her go with just a warning and told her to drive safely.
Later when go back to the police station he called the hospital to verify her story, hospital staff told the officer the man wasn’t a patient. He then ran a search online and found the man’s obituary on a funeral home website dating 2008.
Angry and upset that Williams fabricated the story to get out of a speeding ticket, he went to her house to arrest her.
"I was upset," said Mr Cummings. "For someone to lie about their deceased father just to get out of a speeding ticket was pretty upsetting to me as a person,†he told reporters.
When Williams answered the door, she told the officer that the name in the obituary was her uncle.
After being arrested and brought down to the Nashua police station she confessed to the officer that she made the story up just so she can get out of the speeding ticket.
Williams was released from jail on Sunday and is charged with driving with a suspended registration and speeding.
"You can't excuse the moral and ethical issue on how she attempted to get out of these charges," Lt. Wagner told reporters, "so that really is just a point of the situation that makes her situation worse. It speaks of her character of a person and it's disrespectful." "I think it's very important for everyone to understand, we're real people, real people under the uniform, and we're tasked with a job that we take great pride in," added Wagner.
"When you go to this extreme with this kind of elaborate story, and it's a story that really touches on morality and the values that we expect each person would have and hold to a high standard, it comes to a significant lie," he said.
When asked why she lied about her dad dying of cancer, Williams told reporters she had no comment.
Williams is due in court on Sept. 5 where she will face her charges.
Williams would have originally had a speeding ticket for $200, but now is looking at thousands in fees, a spokeperson said.
