A Nikiski man was arrested after he falsely told authorities his pregnant girlfriend was in labor when he was caught driving with a revoked operator’s license, Alaska State Troopers say.
Shortly after midnight Friday, troopers said they pulled over a gold 1999 GMC Jimmy on the Kenai Spur Highway at Malaitna Avenue in Nikiski for a moving violation.
Troopers said they then learned the driver – 38-year-old Ronald M. Finch — was driving with a revoked operator’s license, according to an online dispatch from AST. Finch was the only person in the SUV and said he was driving because “his girlfriend was in labor and it was an emergency.”
“Nikiski Fire Department responded to the residence and investigation revealed the girlfriend was not in labor and not currently in need of any medical attention,” the dispatch says.
Finch was then arrested and taken to the Wildwood Pretrial Facility. He was remanded for driving with a revoked license, making a false report and driving in violation of a limited operator’s license because the SUV did not have an interlock ignition device, troopers wrote.
Finch was held on $1,500 bail, and the uninsured Jimmy was impounded.
