Police: Driver tried to bribe officer to avoid a ticket
CORVALLIS, Ore. - A driver pulled over for running a stop sign offered a police officer a bribe in an attempt to avoid the ticket, Corvallis Police said.
An officer stopped a car driven by Brian Henshaw, 40, of Albany for failing to obey a stop sign at NW Jackson Avenue and NW 28th Street in Corvallis just after 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
As the officer was issuing the citation, Henshaw offered the officer money to avoid the ticket, police said.
No currency was shown, and Henshaw offered the officer less than the $260 bail carried by the citation he faced, police said. They declined to disclose the actual dollar amount.
The interaction was recorded on video and audio, and Henshaw had been advised the conversation was being recorded, according to police. Those recordings are a public record exempt from disclosure in Oregon pending prosecution of the charges.
The officer refused the bribe, wrote Henshaw the ticket and reported the incident to his supervisor.
Detectives followed up with Henshaw later that day. After interviewing him, he was placed under arrest on the charge of Bribe Giving, a Class B felony in Oregon. Police booked him into the Benton County Jail. He was released the same day.
thought he was in Mexico
I would have just took the ticket and drove away!Â
LMAO! What an idiot. When you get pulled over, the officer will tell you that the conversation is being recorded for safety. Was he impaired too?
He just figured that since the puppet polititians that take bribes to reduce freedom and create a police state do it... he could too...
The sad part of this story is that this technique has probably worked for the guy on some other occasion. He just got the wrong cop this time. The other possibility is that he is paid informant testing the cops in that area. Would be interesting to see the outcome of the charges.
HAHAHAHA...should have offered him some pot=))