I suspect that the person being ticketed had a vehicle license plate number very similar to mine, and someone made a typo.
Those things happen. I once found a deposit of $67,000 in my savings account. I was rich for about 3 months until I finally called the bank to ask about it. Someone had transposed digits in an account number... (It would have been nice if the bank had at least allowed me to keep the interest. But they even took that away.)
The pigs! LOL
Similar thing happened to me. I made a deposit and the clerk at the bank transposed numbers. She typed in my account number for the deposit amount. I called the bank the next day, and they said that the clerk had caught the mistake when she cleared her day out at the end of her shift. I bet she was a surprised as I was. I kept that deposit ticket for many years showing that I once had 3/4 mil in my bank account, if only for a few hours!