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Francesca Cisneros, who police say has been cited for excessive speed 69 times in five months, was arrested earlier this week in Scottsdale. SCOTTSDALE POLICE
Another driver accused of speeding on Loop 101 landed in Scottsdale’s jail this week: A Chandler woman who police said triggered photo enforcement cameras 69 times in five months.
Francesca Cisneros, 32, admitted she speeds in her 2002 Honda Civic because she’s always late to meetings, police said. She told police she threw the tickets away because she thought nothing would happen to her.
The woman was caught speeding 64 times on Loop 101 and five times on surface streets between March 2 and July 31, police said. Her highest alleged speed was 86 mph. She also is accused of a redlight camera violation in March.
Police have arrested several people accused of speeding excessively on Loop 101 based on evidence from Scottsdale’s photo enforcement program, which began Jan. 22. One man was charged with driving at 147 mph.
Cisneros was arrested Tuesday at a Scottsdale police station, where she had gone to speak to a detective, Sgt. Mark Clark wrote in an e-mail.
City Prosecutor Caron Close said Cisneros faces pos- sible jail time because five of her citations were for alleged criminal speeding “20 mph or faster over the posted speed limit” and she also was driving twice on a suspended license.
If found guilty on all 64 civil speed violations alone, she would be responsible for $10,048 in fines at $157 a ticket.
Cisneros couldn’t be reached for comment.
Close said Thursday that she hasn’t received Cisneros’ case yet, but she was aware of it.
“This is unusual,” Close said. “I hope it’s unusual. I hope we don’t have a lot of people out there ignoring speeding tickets. When people rack up a volume of tickets like that, we try to go after them.”
Before her arrest, process servers had delivered all of her speeding citations, police said.
On 15 occasions, she was clocked speeding twice in one day, police said. She sped three times on two days, and was clocked speeding four times in a day on four occasions, police said.
Cisneros was held in the Scottsdale City Jail and released Thursday after a jail court proceeding by Judge James Blake where she promised to appear at further court proceedings, police said. A pretrial conference for Cisneros is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 14 in Scottsdale City Court.
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