Dade County, FL – 8 February 2019 – New details are emerging from yesterday’s story on the shooting during a repossession attempt in Davie, Florida, the alleged shooter has been arrested and, photos identify the repossession company involved as, “Prestige Auto Towing”, who are apparently no strangers to violent incidents in the field, after having camera car drivers allegedly breaching peace in two separate incidents in 2018.
Police have arrested 57 year old, Juan Barquero on charges including attempted murder and firing a gun into an occupied vehicle.
The two men had their hands in the air and referred to the credentials they were wearing, but Barquero “ordered the victims at gunpoint to lower his car,” a Davie police arrest report said.
When the two men jumped in the tow truck and started driving away, Barquero, 57, fired off seven rounds — six of which went into the truck’s back window, police said.
“I felt one go behind my neck, the heat of the bullet,” said the tow truck driver, who declined to be identified out of fear for his safety.
“I just put my head down and kept on driving,” he said.After getting about a half-mile from where the shots were fired, still pulling the Mercedes-Benz, the men pulled over and called 911.
Investigators found seven spent .9mm shells in front of Barquero’s home, said Davie police who have a contract to patrol the town of Southwest Ranches.
The repossession company, “Prestige Auto Towing”, had camera car drivers involved in two prior violent incidents in 2018. On March 8, 2018, a camera car driver for the company was arrested and charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon for pulling a knife on a borrower during a verbal argument over his attempt to repossess a borrowers KIA, while he had a young child sleeping in the back of his car.
A second incident occurred just weeks later on April 23, 2018, when another camera car driver and another woman, allegedly were forcibly detaining a borrower by blocking in a borrower occupied vehicle and engaging in verbally aggressive behavior in the effort to remove her from the vehicle and repossess it before officers arrived. When officers arrived, the camera car driver was allegedly unable to provide a repossession order.
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