SALT LAKE CITY — False IDs, drugs and other people's medical records were found in a vehicle stopped by the Utah Highway Patrol over the weekend. Investigators Monday were still trying to sort out what exactly they had.
Troopers stopped a man for investigation of speeding, having illegal tires and illegally tinted windows about 7:45 a.m. Saturday on the frontage road off I-80 near 8400 West, said UHP trooper Cameron Roden.
The driver gave troopers a false ID, he said. That ID belonged to a person who had warrants out for his arrest, so the man was taken into custody. When detectives learned the man's real identity, they discovered he had even more warrants than the person he was impersonating, Roden said.
Inside the vehicle, troopers found several different driver licenses, fake IDs, drugs, checks and medical records for different people.
"We don't know where the medical records came from or what he was doing with them," Roden said.
After Tracy Lee Eldredge, 34, was placed under arrest and placed in the back of a patrol car, he went into some sort of seizure, Roden said. He was treated at a local hospital and later booked into jail.
Utah court records show Eldredge has a long criminal history with numerous arrests for drug-, theft- and joyriding-related charges.
— Pat Reavy