ENGLEWOOD, N.J. – A recovering addict in New Jersey racked up $120,000 in unpaid tolls and fines for his mother after he used her car to buy drugs.
"I used to take her car to [New York City] to buy drugs," a contrite Peter Davis said. He claims to be a recovering addict and living with his mom in an Englewood, N.J., apartment.
It is actually his mother, 75-year-old Jean Davis, who is shamed on the Port Authority's website as owing the most money of any scofflaw.
But on Saturday, Peter Davis admitted that he is the one who racked up the debt, by using her Ford Focus for years to blow through tolls on numerous trips to Manhattan to get high.
"When you're addicted like that, you don't think of the consequences. You have other things on your mind," the 52 year old said.
Thanks to his many drug junkets, his mom is in the hole for $21,365 in unpaid tolls and has accrued $102,141 in fines -- a sum that continues to grow.
"If I could have killed him and gotten away with it, I would have," retired data processor Jean Davis said.
Her son admitted that for "three or four years," he would drive his mother's car over the George Washington Bridge several times a week to score drugs.
Jean Davis said she reached a court settlement, but could not remember for how much, with the Port Authority in 2005 -- but her son continued breezing through the toll booths and stopped only when his license was revoked sometime in 2008 or 2009, the Davises said.
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