Posted on 09/15/2006 2:34:58 PM PDT by wjersey
A repo man got more than he bargained for when he repossessed a car in Delaware this morning. There was a five-year-old child in the back seat.
It happened Friday morning, on Pennywell Drive in Edgemore when a local mom ran back into her house for just minutes to use the telephone, and when she came back outside her car was gone... and so was her five-year-old son. He's safe with loved ones now, but early this morning Xavier Collins sat stunned and silent in the back seat of his mom's Saturn station wagon while it was being repossessed.
Rosalie Hargroves frantically called police at the time, fearing her son had been kidnapped.
The repo man was rushed to the hospital after suffering from chest pains at New Castle County police headquarters. He's identified as Ron Roberts, co-owner of a Newport Dealership. Indications are he drove the repossessed car, with Xavier in it, to a repair shop ten minutes away from the boys' home.
The sister of the car dealer calls what happened today a big misunderstanding, but Xavier's relatives call it a crime. Xavier's family hopes kidnapping charges are filed against the dealer, but investigators here have yet to file any charges because Roberts took ill.
"I'll take back the kid if you let me keep the car".
A woman showed up with a baby. The agent took leave of his senses and wouldn't let her out ~ maybe he thought she had a million bucks in the kid's diapers.
His boss told me a few days later that they'd had to let this agent go because, alas, IRS does have standards, low ones perhaps, but that agent had crossed the line by kidnapping a baby.
He was. This guy should get the book thrown at him hard.
You don't have kids do you?
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