[John Valentine]

Michele Squires once owned the 1965 Volkswagen van that was found recently in a shipping container at a Southern California port -- 35 years after she had it stolen from a repair shop. She'd now like to buy it back.

Did YOU read it?

[Richard Kimball]

There have been other stories posted about this. The woman didn't commit a crime. The guy who hired the reporter that wrote this story committed the crime.

She had the van in a repair shop and it was stolen from that shop. She didn't arrange to have it stolen.