Justin Noble Willits

Called by the State on day 4 as a records witness, Willits appeared as an investigator and toll enforcement officer with the Florida Department of Transportation's Florida Turnpike Enterprise and served as custodian for SunPass toll data collected on Alligator Alley (I-75). The proceeding was direct examination only; the trial record reflects no cross, redirect, or recross.

Georgia Cappleman conducted the direct, walking Willits through FDOT's toll data collection and storage infrastructure, establishing his custodian status, and confirming that the collection equipment was in working order in July 2014. That foundation supported admission of Exhibits 92A and 92B, an excerpt from a filtered spreadsheet of transponder transactions.

Willits described the search he ran in response to a Tallahassee Police Department subpoena: westbound transponder passages on July 16, 2014 between 12:30 and 4:30 p.m., and eastbound passages on July 18, 2014 between 3:00 and 6:30 p.m. He then filtered those results for accounts listing a Prius. He testified that a single SunPass account matched both windows — the account of Darren A. Schwartz, whose account email indicated a rental car company specializing in hybrid vehicles.

On the limits of the records, Willits clarified that a SunPass account does not tie a transponder to a specific vehicle at the moment of a transaction, so he could confirm only that the transponder was associated with the Schwartz account and not which particular Prius was in the lane. He also acknowledged, when shown Exhibit 127 — a CD containing the full toll record production with a certification of authenticity — that he had not reviewed that specific disc; the record of this proceeding does not reflect its formal admission.

Near the close of the examination, Judge Hankinson asked about specific transaction times visible in the exhibits. Willits stated that those times existed in the underlying full data but that he could not read them from the document displayed in court.