Rye police arrested a Queens man Thursday after they caught him driving with a stolen license plate.
Police stopped Oscar Magallanes, 27, of College Point, after officers spotted the 2007 Volkswagen Rabbit he was driving with a stolen plate on Midland Avenue as it entered I-287 heading west. The plate had been reported stolen to the NYPD Property Crimes Unit on Sept. 4.
Officers pulled the car over on the shoulder of the highway, according to police.
Magallanes was charged with criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree and aggravated unlicensed operation in the third degree.
He was released on his own recognizance and is due back in Rye City Court on Oct. 14 at 9 a.m.
