A traffic patrolman who wrote more than 1,000 bogus tickets and gave some motorists a break will remain with the Police Department, his superiors have decided.

The fraud ring had also sold £1m worth of bogus tickets to music festivals and other sporting events to victims across the globe.

He cited investigations of bogus tickets written by agents and a "rogue" computer that audits showed was vulnerable to manipulation.

The mother asked that the area manager investigate who had issued the bogus ticket.

And the police warned fans that if they bought from scalpers, they could end up with bogus tickets.

They apparently bought the bogus tickets because they wanted to beat the system, he said, not because they could not afford the real thing.

Usually, he can tell a bogus ticket by touch alone.

He was grocery shopping with his wife and got a tip that someone was selling bogus tickets nearby at a bar in New Rochelle.

Police officials have opened an investigation to determine how many bogus tickets have been written.

Anyone buying Led Zeppelin tickets will be buying bogus tickets.