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Ben Shakman, a Wildwood, Missouri resident, purchased a trailer on Facebook Marketplace for $3,500 years ago and thought all was fine. But when he went to the license office to register the vehicle, the title was deemed incomplete because the sale price was missing. He told FOX 2 the state took 294 days to notify him of the problem. A skip title is when someone purchases a vehicle and doesn’t get the title in their name before selling it to someone else. This, FOX 2 says, was the issue facing Shakman. A person who is involved in this sort of...

In an undercover takedown, Miami-Dade Police arrested and charged a man who they say tried to sell a bedridden elderly woman's house using fake IDs, fake documents and stolen information. Tom Roy Jenkins, 43, of Oakland Park, was arrested Monday and faces multiple charges, including fraud, grand theft and elderly exploitation, according to an arrest report. He's being held in jail on a $45,000 bond. "This individual attempted to practically steal a home from an 86-year-old bedridden female that's in a nursing home," said Miami-Dade Police spokesman Alvaro Zabaleta. Detectives said Jenkins used a fake Florida driver’s license and drew...