JAY – A Wilton man with an extensive record of motor vehicle infractions was arrested Tuesday after police say they caught him operating a vehicle for the second time within a month after his license was suspended.

Walter G. Noble, 63, has 41 convictions and 29 withdrawals or suspensions of his license, Jay police Chief Larry White Sr. said.

Noble was arrested on a charge of operating after suspension and violation of conditions of release and charged by summons for having an open container of alcohol in the motor vehicle on Monday, White said.

Police also charged Flory Choate, 74, of Wilton, who was the passenger, by summons for allowing illegal operation of vehicle under the state motor vehicle laws, White said. She had been notified previously that Noble didn’t have a license, White said.

Noble had been arrested six days before on Nov. 29, accused of giving Jay police license information of a relative and not his own when he was stopped Nov. 10 after allegedly exceeding the posted speed limit. When officer Stephen Wilkinson checked the license information that Noble gave him in that case, it came back clean and he was given a written warning for exceeding the speed limit.

After Wilkinson investigated and learned Noble had given incorrect information, he was arrested on a charge of deception, police said. He also was charged by summons with operating after suspension.

Noble was released on $150 cash bail on Dec. 1 for the Nov. 29 charges.

He remained at the Franklin County jail in Farmington on Tuesday night, being held this time on $500 cash bail or $5,000 surety for Monday’s charges.

White spotted Noble at Al’s Tire on Route 133 on Monday when the chief brought a new cruiser in to get snow tires.

White said he observed Noble walk toward the driver’s side of a vehicle but when he noticed police presence, he walked over to the passenger side, where a woman was sitting.

The woman got out and got into the driver’s side behind the wheel, and they sat there, White said.

White left the area but kept an eye on Noble and called officer Wilkinson to go sit up on Bartlett Road, which intersects with Route 133 a short distance away.

Sure enough, White said, within a few minutes Noble was driving the vehicle and was stopped by Wilkinson.

White said the open container of alcohol was observed by police and that Noble admitted to having it there.

“He just continues to violate,” White said, referring to the charge of driving after license suspension.

“I’m hoping the court will do something with this individual,” White said. “I hope it is not taken lightly because of his extensive driving history.”

State lawmakers strengthened the operation-after-suspension penalties earlier this year, which gives offenders mandatory jail sentences.