AP News, November 9th, 2006
A Chandler woman who ignored more than 70 speeding tickets this year has agreed to spend five days in jail and pay thousands of dollars in fines.
Francesca Cisneros, 32, made headlines when she was arrested and jailed for ignoring the tickets she received between March 2 and July 31.
She recently entered into a plea agreement with Scottsdale prosecutors.
Cisneros initially had entered a not guilty plea before City Court Judge James Blake in August but later agreed to plead guilty to three counts of criminal speeding and two counts of driving on a suspended license after weeks of negotiations.
The plea agreement also restricts her driving privileges for one year, places Cisneros on a year's probation and requires she pay fines on dozens of tickets she failed to resolve with the court, according to Scottsdale City Prosecutor Caron Close.
Cisneros will have to pay an average of $157 per ticket for 51 civil speeding violations, fines of $293 for each criminal speeding violation and $568 for each count of driving on a suspended license. Those fines total $10,022.
Most of Cisneros' speeding tickets were from Scottsdale's freeway photo enforcement cameras on Loop 101.
She was arrested and briefly jailed in August for ignoring the speeding tickets.
Cisneros told police that she drove above the speed limit because she was late to meetings and didn't think anything would happen to her for ignoring the tickets.
About 25 speeding tickets Cisneros received on Loop 101 were dismissed as part of her plea agreement, Close said.
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Information from: East Valley Tribune/Scottsdale Tribune, http://www.aztrib.com
