Earlier this month, a fifty-one-year-old man with a warrant out of Catoosa County was arrested during a traffic stop by a Chattooga County Sheriff’s Deputy, according to a report released late last week.

The deputy received an alert regarding a red Nissan Titan pickup truck that indicated the vehicle’s registration had expired over a year prior.  The deputy observed the Nissan Titan pull into the lot of a Chevron gas station located on Dot Johnson Drive. While waiting for the vehicle to exit the property, the deputy was able to further verify that not only was the vehicle’s registration cancelled, but its insurance had also been terminated several months earlier.

Once the Nissan Titan left the gas station, the deputy initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle as it traveled northbound on Highway 27. He caught up to it near the intersection of Back Penn Road and Railroad Circle. Approaching the driver’s side, the deputy identified the driver as Timothy Leming and informed him of the reason for the stop – the expired and cancelled registration. Leming complied with Fielding’s request to provide his driver’s license.

Leming was  found to be wanted out of Catoosa County for various outstanding traffic offenses and was arrested and taken to the Chattooga County Jail.