Posted on 03/12/2009 7:06:08 AM PDT by Netizen
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — Three Scottsbluff auto dealership executives are expected to be under arrest by this morning after they packed up their belongings, loaded 81 new vehicles onto trucks and left town.
Scottsbluff police, with help from federal authorities, tracked the trio across the southwestern United States on Wednesday as many of the vehicles were sold at auctions.
Felony theft charges were filed in Scotts Bluff County Court on Wednesday against Legacy Auto Sales owner Allen Patch and two of his senior managers: comptroller Rachel Fait, 37, and general manager Rick Covello, 53.
Detectives located Patch, 52, at his attorney's office in Tooele County, Utah, and were waiting to arrest him. Scottsbluff Police Capt. Kevin Spencer said he had not been arrested as of 8:30 p.m. CDT.
Fait was arrested in Tooele County earlier Wednesday. Covello is expected to turn himself in to Scottsbluff authorities today.
According to police, 81 new Ford and Toyota vehicles were loaded onto auto transport trailers from the dealership over the weekend and Monday evening. Scotts Bluff Deputy County Attorney John Childress said the vehicles, among them sedans to pickups, are valued at more than $2.5 million.
According to court documents, plans to title and sell the vehicles at auto auctions were in the works for weeks.
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According to police, dealership employees converted manufacturer documents to ownership titles at the Scotts Bluff County Clerk's Office on Feb. 26 and 27 and then Thursday, Friday and Monday.
It is not unusual for a car dealership to obtain vehicle titles, Spencer said, but in this case, "the cars weren't theirs to sell because they were owned by a Toyota financing company."
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That link is just loaded with some great quotes:
“Comptroller Rachel Fait, 37, had been arrested at her Utah home early in the evening.”
“Rachel Fait”She lives here in Tooele,” Tooele County Sheriff Frank Park said. “They just went up to her house and found her.”
Hummm! What was a comptroller for a Nebraska Vehicle Dealership doing living in Tooele. That is one hell of a commute.
We can look forward to more interesting news releases about this woman.
What an idiotic scheme. Did they expect they could sell all those cars at auctions and make the border before being caught? Have they never heard of transmission of VINs via the internet and/or telephone?
I’m going with guilty, very guilty. Thanks for the update. ;-)
Guilty and very stupid.
A potential BHO nominee?
She looks like a fat Ashley Judd.
So wouldn't that make her look like Wynonna Judd?
Wynonna Judd is to smirky.
Geez, you guys are really critical today! Or as the libtards would say, “Judgemental”! bol
Besides, a little, swift, vigilante justice can't hurt on occasion.
Great response in today’s Alice in Wonderland World under the Zer0.
Gee for being in financial trouble, how’d she manage to afford two homes. She had put her other home up for sale.
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