New Jersey Man Jailed For Giving Police Fake Name

Written by Jack Tobias

The passenger of a car stopped by police on Route 22 in Easton early Wednesday insisted he was Ezra Kasim Robinson, even though he admitted he didn’t know his Social Security number.

The man stuck to his story, despite a state trooper telling him he wasn’t getting any hits on an identity data base, then warning him his identity would be verified with fingerprinting via an electronic “live scan,” court records say.

The trooper was proved right, the records say. The “live scan” identified the man as Jamil Kasim Henderson, 22, of 176 Avon Ave., Newark, N.J.

As with the middle name, the date of birth that Henderson had given for “Robinson” turned out to be real – March 11, 1991.

Henderson was charged with false identification to law enforcement authority – something that landed him in Northampton County Prison in lieu of $10,000 bail. He was arraigned at 5am Wednesday by on-duty District Judge Jackie Taschner of Palmer Township.

Henderson’s file does not list the name of the driver of the green 1996 Chevrolet Cavalier two-door that police stopped around 12:37am on westbound Route 22 just west of the 13th Street exit.

Police stopped the car, which had a Pennsylvania license plate, because its headlights were off, according to a criminal complaint filed by Trooper James Rabel of state police at Bethlehem.

Rabel noted that the area where he stopped the car is an active construction zone. He said he first talked to the driver and secured his identity, then went to the passenger side to talk to Henderson, who told the trooper he has a New Jersey identification card but didn’t have it on him.

Rabel took Henderson to the Bethlehem barracks, where the “live scan” was performed.