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Pete, I can't tell you for sure why he ran your plates, but my Brother in Law is a San Antonio Police Officer...When I rode along with him a while back, he would run the plates of a lot of the cars that he saw out on the road, either traveling in front of him or stopped at a stop light, no particular reason. This is how stolen cars are found, amber alert suspects are found, robbery suspects, etc. He probably routinely ran your plate, saw it was expired (in his system) and figured he'd pull you over to check it out. You have no idea how many bad guys they catch this way! Once he saw that you were not a bad guy, he let you go on your way, hopefully with little to no hassle...