Posted on 03/11/2009 7:31:20 AM PDT by NEMDF
Yesterday, I posted: “Amazing how dumb some people can be.”
Then FR had the Mexican Drug cartels involved.
It appears to be what many of us felt and posted: “An inside job!” A job planned by the former owners, Dumb, Dumber and Even More Dumber!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205009/posts
81-Vehicle Theft Looks Like An Inside Job
Omaha World Herald ^ | March 12, 2009 | MAUNETTE LOEKS
Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:06:08 AM 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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