Woman Faces $30k Fine for Giving Rides to Burning Man
Woman Fined After Undercover Agents Caught Her Giving Rides to Black Rock Desert.
A 61-year-old Reno resident, Susie Holland, is facing up to $30,000 in fines after unknowingly offering rides to undercover agents posing as Burning Man attendees. Holland shared her experience with the Reno Gazette Journal, recounting how agents from the Nevada Transportation Authority (NTA) swarmed her vehicle when she arrived to pick up festival-goers.
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Holland explained that the supposed festival-goers she was helping were actually NTA agents conducting a sting operation. The agents informed her it’s illegal to provide rides without a permit, then searched her car and impounded it.
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“When I pulled in … they just swooped up on me in three undercover Ford Explorers,” Holland told the RGJ. “They were coming at me so fast, so hard and so intensely, I was like, what is happening right now?”
“We are seeing huge amounts of illegal activity. Most people don’t even know that they are operating illegally. But it is illegal to operate without a certificate of public convenience, a necessity that is administered and issued through the Nevada Transportation Authority,” Vaughn Hartung, the Chairman of NTA, said to KOLO-TV.
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To get her car back, Holland paid $1,500 in fines and impound fees. Shockingly, she learned from an impound lot attendant that 18 other vehicles were seized for the same reason. Holland is now waiting to see the final amount of her fine but fears it could climb to $30,000.
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