Just as fast as some law enforcement agencies attempt to make life harder on criminals, the scofflaws they target are coming up with countermeasures. In this case, the battleground is Texas, where ...

Texas officials finally killed off the flimsy paper license plate, but the state’s long running tag fraud problem did not disappear with it. Instead, the crackdown has pushed counterfeiters into a new ...

Last year, Texas banned temporary paper tags in an effort to thwart counterfeit license plates. Unfortunately that effort has proven less than successful, as counterfeiters have simply started making ...

Texas had a huge problem on its hands a couple of years ago. Criminals were printing out fake temporary paper license plates. Those would then end up on cars that were doing everything from skirting ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- An ABC13 investigation into fake paper plates for sale on the black market, has prompted law enforcement to investigate. We found paper car plates for sale on Facebook. We ...

Since the beginning of July 2025, most Texas temporary paper license plates have been replaced by new metal plates with colored stripes to indicate their purpose. This was done to help prevent fraud ...

Part one of this two-part story is in the player above. Part two of this report can be found below. Unscrupulous small car dealers are raking in millions, illegally selling Texas paper license plates ...

Texas officials are continuing to confront widespread use of fraudulent license plates months after the state eliminated paper temporary tags, a move intended to curb abuse that had made Texas a ...

HOUSTON, Texas - Eight months after Texas officially pulled the plug on the paper license plate system, law enforcement officials say the transition to metal tags is successfully curbing the "ghost ...

Just one week after Texas ended paper tags, police departments are tracking down drivers who didn’t get the message. As of Sept. 1, the last of the state’s temporary paper tags expired, meaning any ...