Why do rich Beverly Hillsbillians think they can get away with breaking the law? Because they can. However, recently the Beverly Hills police force must have decided that it can no longer look the other way at rich and famous traffic offenders, without becoming a subject of national ridicule. Finally - they have taken a gander at Stefan Erikssen’s Mercedes McLaren that tools about town without legal registration. When they stopped the driver, Erikssen’s wife, she didn’t even possess a valid driver’s license. However, she couldn’t claim the passenger had been the driver, as he was a child, her own child. Besides, cameras were rolling. Now the Erikssens are minus one more exotic luxury car to drive about.

When her husband’s rare Enzo Ferrari was mysteriously crashed in the Malibu Hills last month by an unknown German named Deitrich who ran away, passenger Stefen Erikssen identified himself as the deputy commissioner of a police department of a tiny transit agency in the San Gabriel Valley. Only in California could it happen that commissioners of police departments are not required to obey California laws and that they are paid so well that they can own fleets of rare and priceless vehicles and live in gated Bel-Air estates.

Ex-con Erikssen’s Enzo Ferrari
Stefan Eriksson’s famous exotic car collection keeps shrinking:

First, the former European videogame executive’s rare Enzo Ferrari was destroyed in a mysterious crash Feb. 21 on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. Then, on Sunday, he lost his 2005 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, valued at more than $400,000. Beverly Hills police confiscated the vehicle after Scotland Yard said the car might have been stolen.

The officers stopped Eriksson’s wife, Nicole Persson, 33, about 2:30 p.m. on the corner of Beverly Drive and Wilshire Boulevard because an officer found the car’s European license plate suspicious. The officer then discovered that Persson lacked a driver’s license and that the car was not registered in the United States.