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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Umatilla woman behind bars after caught driving pickup with no registered owner

Pamela Rose Goff

A habitual traffic offender was arrested Wednesday night after a Marion County sheriff’s deputy spotted her driving a Dodge pickup with the wrong license tag on it.

The deputy stopped the truck, driven by 53-year-old Pamela Rose Goff, on Hwy. 314A. She said she didn’t own the vehicle but was given permission to drive it by the owner. But she couldn’t provide that person’s name, a sheriff’s office report states.

Goff told the deputy that she didn’t have a driver’s license. After a criminal background check, the deputy discovered the Goff’s license had been suspended on July 5, 2012 for failure to pay a traffic fine. And on Feb. 6, 2008 she had been labeled a habitual traffic for 60 months, the report says.

The deputy also ran the pickup’s VIN number and it came back with no valid owner. And it showed certificate of destruction for the title.

Goff, who lives at 14641 SE 210th Ave. in Umatilla, was transported to the Marion County Jail and charged with failing to register a motor vehicle and driving while license suspended (habitual offender). She was held on $2,500 bond and is due in court on June 18 at 9 a.m. to answer to the charges.