Dumb Luck Wrongful Repossession

Uncovers Forgery Vehicle Theft Case

Yalobusha County, MS – December 22, 2022 – The plates matched, but rule number one of repossessions; check the VIN. Apparently, one Mississippi recovery agent didn’t learn that one and failed to verify it until getting back to the lot. Nauseas, as you can imagine, he called the police to report the error. Call it dumb luck, but his error was a break the police were waiting for.

It all started in October, when two men presented another unnamed man, a cashiers check for $39,000 to purchase a Jeep SRT. Shocker, it was a fake check.

The seller, suspicious of the men, he had taken a picture of them, as well as the car they arrived in. Given to the police, they posted their faces on the Sheriff Department’s social media pages.

It wasn’t long until they heard from a Carroll County woman who had also had her own run in with these men when they scammed her with a fake check for a Honda Accord. And that’s where it went cold, until…

Earlier this month, they received a call from a nausea struck repossession agent reporting his wrongful repossession of a Jeep SRT with swapped license plates. Running the vehicle identification number, police found it matched the fake check auto theft case from October.

From there, the Ridgeland Police Department took over the unpleasant matter of contacting the persons from whom the Jeep was wrongfully repossessed from. Calling him, they advised that there had been an error and that they could come and pick it up.

Fishhooks in mouth, Elisha Lindsey and Tre Vaughn Railey swallowed the bait and came to pick it up.

Lindsey was arrested and taken to the Yalobusha County jail, on charges of Uttering Forgery. Railey was extradited to Tuscaloosa County, Alabama to face charges of possession of a forged instrument.

As for the unnamed repossession agent and company? They got damn lucky! And that’s about as good as it gets on a wrongful repo.

Source : WCBI.com