From Neutral to Nightmare – Repo Mayhem in Mayfield

Gun Drawn, Hair Pulled, Phone Smashed and Truck Stolen

Mayfield Heights, OH – March 10, 2025 – A pre-dawn confrontation during a routine vehicle repossession turned violent when a woman allegedly pulled a female agent from a car by her hair and held a gun to her head. And she was just warming up. By dawn, she was under arrest. But not before reportedly smashing an agent’s phone and stealing his tow truck.

On March 1 at 4:41 am, police officers were dispatched to a call to the Golden Gate Gardens Apartments. Upon arrival, the found an unnamed repoman and woman who claimed they were threatened at gunpoint by a woman while attempting to repossess a vehicle. At the ime, the suspect had already fled the scene, leaving the repossession agents stranded without keys to their tow truck or personal car.

According to the agents, the female agent was inside the vehicle, putting it in neutral, when the suspect approached. Yelling at them, the suspect allegedly pulled the female agent out of the car by her hair. Jumping behind the wheel of the car on the tow truck, she failed to free it from the tow trucks grasp. Undaunted, she commandeered the tow truck and drove it approximately 500 feet from the original scene of the incident.

But she wasn’t done.

As the female recovery agent entered her personal vehicle to contact the authorities, the suspect followed. Climbing into her car, the suspect is claimed to have held a gun to her head. But the repo woman had a gun too.

Reaching for her own gun, the suspect fled. But not before taking the keys to the tow truck and the female agents’ personal car keys and destroying the male agent’s cell phone as he tried to call the police.

During the police investigation, the registered owner of the repossessed vehicle was identified as a 74-year-old woman who had emerged from her apartment to inquire about the disturbance. She informed officers that her daughter also had access to the vehicle. The police then determined that the daughter, aged 37, was the suspect.

Although the mother claimed ignorance of her daughter’s whereabouts, officers later observed the daughter sneaking her mother into their apartment. When police entered, the daughter attempted to flee but was apprehended at gunpoint.

The unnamed suspect faces charges of robbery, menacing, having a weapon under disability, grand theft, criminal damaging, obstructing official business, driving under suspension, and disrupting public service.

The following day, a search warrant was served. Inside the apartment they found the agent’s tow truck and car keys but not the gun. That was found later by the repossession agent under the seat of his car, which the suspect had entered during the incident.

Source: Cleveland.com