Citations stun Colton police

Part-time Colton police officer Brian Keller holds up a handful of the 2,100 citations mistakenly sent to Colton. Keller said they kept one box of 1,000 and sent the other back.

Colton police officer Brian Keller was stunned to open a misplaced shipment of 2,100 paper citation forms followed by a $673 bill in December.

Keller had ordered 125 citation forms (or five books of 25 each) after the department of licensing told him his current tickets were out of date.

“I called them and said, ‘Hey, it would literally take me 50 years to use all these tickets,” said Keller.

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