Posted on 03/11/2009 7:31:20 AM PDT by NEMDF
Scottsbluff dealership missing three bosses, dozens of cars
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10583582
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — One by one, somebody loaded new Toyotas onto trucks Monday evening from the Legacy Auto Sales dealership in Scottsbluff and drove off into the night.
Dozens of cars were taken. Now plenty of people, including Scottsbluff police, want to know what's going on.
That includes Legacy employee Miranda Cervantes. She discovered Tuesday morning that the dealership's owner and two other officers had disappeared without a word to the staff. Also gone were more than 80 Ford and Toyota vehicles.
Employees found the desks of owner Allen Patch, comptroller Rachel Feit and general manager Rick Covello empty. Their computers also were gone.
"When I saw that, I knew something just isn't right," Cervantes said.
Scottsbluff Police Capt. Kevin Spencer confirmed that police were investigating removal of the vehicles as a possible crime.
Police said at least 81 vehicles are missing.
Cervantes said the cars disappeared from three lots in Scottsbluff — about 25 to 30 Fords and about 50 Toyotas. Police have been unable to contact Patch, Feit or Covello.
Cervantes said Toyota representatives contacted her Tuesday. Someone had reported that a large number of cars were missing from the lot.
"They asked me, 'What is going on there?' I told them everything, that the cars are all gone. . . . We (employees) don't have a clue. Employees were not told of any reason that the vehicles were removed."
Who is John Galt?
“Mexico”
My guess too.
Mexican drug cartels are getting amazingly audacious. Could they be victims of a kidnapping, car theft crime?
How could these guys expect to fence 80 hot cars?
Easiest to smuggle them south of the border and you probably need organized crime to move that much iron.
It’s amazing, the tires match you eyes.
If this is a Mexican Mafia Gang, they must have donated heavily to Zer0.
It will be interesting to see what happens.
The FBI and Toyota’s private investigators will be over this like rat terriers with a field mouse.
Test drive for Toby!!
I thought that maybe we could take care of this right here in Brainard?
Those free cars the President is going to give to everybody had to come from somewhere ...
Organized crime? Who do you think runs the car industry and the auto unions? Move over Jimmy, you gonna have company.
What do the family members of these guys have to say?
You can trace a computer anywhere by their MAC ID. If they use the computers, someone with a brain can find them.
Also, freeze their bank accounts or at least trace the accounts.
Betcha the vehicles are in Mexico. Part of the Obamaloon double-super-secret Mexican stimulus plan.
(This is so dumb, it’s probably true - given the loon and his Loon-O-Tic cabinet).
bump for later. I have a friend who worked for/with Allen Patch in Tooele, Utah.
Look for two of the three to end up on a morgue slab. Soon. Now you’re talking serious money and early retirement for the last man standing, eh?
Oh man, I read the headline and saw “Scotsdale” instead of Scottsbluff - and automatically assumed this was a mexican abduction/theft. I’m such a racist....
Yup.
My brother went to Hiram Scott College there in the mid-60's. I visited him a couple times there.
this is funny....ever been to Scottsbluff?....it’s a nice town of about 15,000 in “outstate” Nebraska...they’ll be talking about this caper for years down at the local cafe....it sounds like something”
How many auto transports are needed to haul away 81 vehicles?
Probably at least a dozen or more.
So a dozen auto transport trucks pull up in a small town and load 81 vehicles without anyone hearing the loading or seeing the loading and leaving.
We live over 3 miles from our Auto Row. Some days we can hear the vehicles being loaded or unloaded.
That’s what I was thinking.
LOL....”That’s tooo EFFIN high!!!!!”
bang..
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