Man allegedly caught driving stolen motorcycle when license plates don’t check out

POCATELLO — A Pocatello person has been billed with grand theft and delivering phony identification right after he reportedly gave officers a phony identify.

William Peter Coziah, 24, faces a felony cost for grand theft and a misdemeanor cost for giving bogus details to an officer, according to court paperwork.

An officer with the Pocatello Police Division performed a site visitors halt all over 10:30 p.m. Friday in close proximity to the intersection of North Arthur Avenue and West Custer Avenue soon after functioning the license plate of a motorbike. According to an affidavit of possible lead to, the license plate on the bike was registered to a trailer.

When the officers requested the driver of the motorbike about the license plate, he said he had procured the bike just one yr back and the plates arrived with it.

The driver did not provide the officer with any paperwork, telling the officer his identify was Dewey Coziah, the affidavit says.

The officer experienced dispatch verify the motorbike by VIN number, which returned as stolen out of Utah.

Dispatchers also educated the officer that identification could not be located for Dewey Coziah, but forwarded the officer a license photograph for a man or woman named William Coziah, who experienced an superb warrant.

Right after confirming the impression of William Coziah as the driver of the bike, the officer as soon as once again requested the driver for his title. The driver after once more allegedly provided the title Dewey. When the officer asked about the driver’s license photo, which the officer claimed seemed like him and experienced matching tattoos, the driver stated that his brother, William, had the same tattoos as him.

The officer then asked a witness who was with Coziah at the time of the stop what they realized Coziah’s 1st name to be. The witness told the officer that his identify was William.

The officer identified the driver to be William Coziah and positioned him beneath arrest.

Coziah was transported to Bannock County Jail, in which he was booked and is at the moment remaining held on $20,000 bond.

The warrant for Coziah’s arrest stems from a 2016 felony demand for possession of a controlled compound.

He was also cited for a lot of violations, like displaying fictitious plates.

Despite the fact that Coziah has been billed with these crimes, it does not imply he committed them. All people is presumed harmless until eventually they are demonstrated guilty.

If he is discovered guilty of grand theft and delivering bogus info to an officer, Coziah would experience up to 14-1/2 decades in jail and $6,000 in fines.

He is scheduled to seem in court docket for a preliminary hearing just before magistrate choose Scott Axline on May 3.