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West Palm Beach, FL – October 31, 2024 – Sometimes bad things happen in nice places as we reported a couple of weeks ago with the story of a husband and wife who chased and allegedly opened fire on a repossessor as he was towing away their Maserati. As it turns out, the agent was wearing a body cam and we have part of the video.
Court records report that just after 1am on Wednesday the 30th of October, a still unnamed repossession agent arrived at the quiet gated community home of Brian and Lori Martin of Wellington to recover a Maserati. Having successfully lifting it, the agent reported that the borrower, Brian Martin is reported to have rushed out of the home shirtless and with a black pistol in hand.
Wisely, the agent fled. But as he stopped at the community gates to secure the vehicle, Brian Martin came back and opened fire on the agent as his wife Lori was at the wheel of their Mercedes SUV.
The report states that the Martins proceeded to chase the Repossessor along Lake Worth Road, while Brian allegedly fired additional shots from the passenger seat as the agent called 911.
In the frantic body camera video, you can hear the repossessor on his call with 911 operators reporting the incident.
“He’s shooting at me,” the driver of the tow truck can be heard saying. “He’s shooting at me! He’s shooting at me!”
Responding police stopped the Mercedes and arrested both of the Martins. Inside the Mercedes, deputies found a semi-automatic handgun and a bullet. When interviewed, the couple were reported to have admitted their intention to reclaim the Maserati from the agent and Brian also admitted to having fired the weapon to intimidate the driver.
“I am shaken up, but I’m OK,” the repossessor later told deputies after they responded at the scene.
Brian Martin faces charges of attempted second-degree murder and aggravated assault with a weapon. Lori Martin also faces an attempted second-degree murder charge. Both are scheduled to appear in court again in December.
In a court filing this week, Brian Martin’s public defender asked for his bond to be reduced to $55,000.
“This is an isolated incident where Mr. Martin’s vehicle was being towed under unclear circumstances in the dead of night. He was awoken in the early morning hours to his car alarm going off. It was a chaotic situation, and unlikely to ever be replicated again,” the filing said.
As of Friday, Brian Martin was still in the Palm Beach County jail while his wife Lori was set to be released on house arrest under an unusual condition of her release being that she can have no contact with her husband.
Source: WPTV
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]]>West Palm Beach, FL – October 31, 2024 – Like a stereotype out of an episode of “Operation Repo”, the borrower came out shirtless with gun in hand. But unlike that cheesy show, the agent chose to flee with the Maserati on the lift rather than wrestle in the yard. Unfortunately, he probably should have picked a better location to secure it and soon found himself chased and under fire.
Court records report that at about 1 am on Wednesday, an unnamed repossession agent arrived at the home of Brian and Lori Martin of the gated community of Wellington to recover a Maserati. Having lifted it, Brian Martin is reported to have rushed out of the home shirtless and with a pistol in hand.
Wisely, the agent fled. But as he stopped at the community gates to secure the vehicle, Brian Martin came back and opened fire on the agent from the passenger seat as his wife Lori was at the wheel of their Mercedez SUV.
The report states that the Martins proceeded to chase the Repossessor along Lake Worth Road, while Brian allegedly fired additional shots from the passenger seat as the agent called 911.
Responding police stopped the Mercedes and arrested both of the Martins. Inside the Mercedez, deputies found a semi-automatic handgun and a bullet. When interviewed, the couple were reported to have admitted their intention to reclaim the Maserati from the agent and Brian also admitted to having fired the weapon to intimidate the driver.
Brian Martin faces charges of attempted second-degree murder and aggravated assault with a weapon. He is being held on a $300,000 bond. Lori Martin also faces an attempted second-degree murder charge and she is being held on a $100,000 bond.. Both are scheduled to appear in court again in December.
Source: WPBF.com
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]]>Chester Township, OH – October 23, 2024 – The repossession went smoothly. Pulling into the parking lot of a church to strap it down properly, things took a turn for the worse.
On Tuesday the 22nd, officers of the Chester Township Police Department responded to an assault call by a repossession agent at the parking lot of the Mayfield United Methodist Church along Mayfield Road.
Upon arrival, officers took testimony from an unnamed repossessor who claimed that he had successfully repossessed a vehicle from a nearby residence and had pulled into the church parking lot to secure the unit when a vehicle sped into the lot and blocked his exit.
A dashboard-mounted camera in the tow truck shows a vehicle approach him from the front, blocking him in.
Even before that vehicle comes to a complete stop, the passenger exits with a handgun, pointing it at the tow truck driver as he angrily approaches.
“The dude kept flashing the gun, pointed it at me, cocking it and then he shot towards the back of my truck. … He kept threatening he’s going to put a bullet in my head, he’s getting three more dudes to follow me to make sure I’m not calling the police,” the agent told a police dispatcher in a call made after the incident.
A camera facing the inside of the tow truck shows the driver being assaulted and pulled out of the driver’s side window.
“During the course of the event, the individual is being ordered from the tow truck to release the vehicle. The gun, of course, is being pointed at him, as you know, and at some point, the gun was discharged in his direction,” said Chester Township Police Chief Craig Young.
“I couldn’t get it unstrapped fast enough and, you know, then he fired the gun off and then kept threatening me. He pointed it at me several times,” the driver told police.
“This occurred in a church parking lot where there is a preschool in session, so now we enter into a situation where technically you are in a school safety zone and you are discharging a firearm — and really that’s the reason this investigation is ongoing,” said Young.
In addition to being roughed up and threatened, the tow truck driver told police his assailants took his cell phone and threw it into a pond.
One of them got into the vehicle that was being repossessed and the other into the vehicle they arrived in and both drove off.
The tow truck driver made his 911 call from a phone at a nearby gas station, giving police the address from where the vehicle was being repossessed and the name of the vehicle owner on the account, Ronald Delisio.
Officers quickly identified the second suspect as Kevin Delisio. Both were arrested without incident.
The men now face charges of aggravated robbery, kidnapping and aggravated menacing and will likely face additional charges as the investigation continues.
Source: Cleveland 19 News and Fox8.com
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Charlotte, NC – October 7, 2024 – It’s been almost two weeks since we learned of the senseless murder of 25-year-old Repossessor Khyré Jamaal Grier. Khyrie leaves behind his girlfriend a five-year-old child and a newborn. His grieving mother is desperate for help before his funeral scheduled for October 10th. Please give now!
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New details have emerged on the tragic murder of Khyré Grier on a rainy night on September 26th that shed some additional details of what happened that night according to reporters from Charolette based WSOC TV. Rather than diluting their interviews, I will share them verbatim.
The victim’s family told Channel 9′s Hunter Sáenz that Khyre Grier was just doing his job when he was killed. Grier, 25, was a father to a 5-year-old and a newborn.
“He was smart. He loved cars,” said his mother, Tamara Grier.
“And the job he has, well, he had — excuse me. He loved it. He loved his towing job.”
The grieving mother spoke with Sáenz over the phone.
“I really don’t know how I’m going to cope with this,” she said. “I don’t know how I’m going to get through it.”
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s team who tracks down the most violent criminals in the city were trying to find Ramon Alexi Santos Funes, 34, who they believe helped kill him.
CMPD homicide Sgt. Eduardo Quevedo said on Sept. 26, Grier was found shot to death in the driver’s seat of his tow truck at an apartment complex off Eastcrest Drive in east Charlotte.
Grier’s mother told Sáenz his girlfriend was on the phone with him right before he was killed and could hear people talking to him in Spanish.
“The last thing she heard was him saying that he was going to drop the car. So, he already had the car up there,” his mom said.
Then the call dropped.
Court records said the killing was captured on a dashboard camera inside the tow truck.
“It just seems he was a young man doing his job and he didn’t deserve this,” Sgt. Quevedo said.
CMPD said that same day, they arrested Fabio Herminio Funes, 49. He was charged with first-degree murder at the end of an interview with detectives.
The next day, detectives asked for help finding his brother, who they later identified as Ramon Funes.
“We believe there are people out there who know more than what they’re saying,” Sgt. Quevedo said hours before the announcement that Ramon Funes was arrested.
That was why Quevedo asked people to come forward if they knew where Ramon Funes was so it could lead to closure for Grier’s family.
“Just do the right thing,” Grier’s mom said. “What’s wrong is wrong and what’s right is right.”
Sáenz learned Ramon Funes was from Honduras. He asked police if they were worried he may have gone back to that country, and they said while it’s a possibility, they want him in jail.
On October 2nd, Reporter Hunter Saenz reported that Ramon Funes was arrested in Orange County, TX.
Reported byBy Hunter Sáenz, wsoctv.com
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Charlotte, NC – September 30, 2024 – In a heavy rain, at 7:00 am on the morning of September 26th, officers of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department responded to a welfare check on Eastcrest Drive, Charlotte, NC. Upon arrival, they discovered the body of 25-year-old Repossessor Khyré Jamaal Grier. The cause of death was of gunshot wounds that had occurred over five hours earlier.
The repossession attempt at a townhouse complex at 1720 Eastcrest Drive is reported to have occurred at approximately 2 am when the alleged borrower 49-year-old Fabio Herminio Funes saw him attempting to repossess his vehicle. An argument reportedly ensued and Funes is reported to have opened fire.
It is unclear if Grier died immediately or in the five hours that followed until police arrived for the welfare check at 7 am.
According to the local press, Grier worked for Carolina Towing Company LLC.
Funes was captured the same day and police are also looking out for an unnamed accomplice whose photo they have released. It is reported that the tow truck was equipped with cameras that would have captured the incident.
Funes has been charged with murder.
According to local press, on Instagram it is reported that Khyre was the recent father of a baby son.
As of yet, there are no known GoFundMe or funeral arrangements. We have reached out to Carolina Towing and have yet to receive a response.
Source: Charolette Alerts
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Columbia, SC – September 13, 2024 – She’d been hiding her car for days when 46-year-old Repossessor Steven Hughes caught up to her. Waking her brother for help, Hughes was murdered. After hiding the car after the shooting and trying to hide the gun, the judge set her bond at a mere $75,000.
On Wednesday the 11th, a bond hearing was held for 19-year-old Essence Jackson and her brother, 20-year-old Raheem Jackson, who prosecutor claim was responsible for shooting and killing Repossessor Steven Hughes on Fairmont Drive back on June 10th.
Prosecutors told the Judge that Hughes had come to the area to repossess a car belonging to Essence and text messages on her phone revealed that she was responsible for moving the car from the incident and attempting to hide the gun her brother allegedly used to kill Hughes.
“I was hoping for a little more because, I mean, she was still an accessory. She still played a part in it, but hopefully, maybe she’ll learn from it,” said Stephanie Hughes, the victim’s daughter. “He was caring, he was compassionate. Even in his job he was. He didn’t deserve to go like this, but he’s gonna be remembered the way he should.”
Jackson’s lawyers and the judge said that Essence Jackson is constitutionally entitled to bond because she has no prior violent offenses that make her a danger to society, and the fact that she was arrested five days after the shooting at work, which her lawyers said demonstrates she was not evading police and wasn’t a flight risk.
“Everyone agrees that she is not the shooter,” said Essence Jackson’s attorney, Seth Rose. “So she’s 19 years old, an honor roll student, no prior record at all; she was arrested roughly a week later at work. But she’s clearly not a flight risk, she’s clearly not a danger to the community and she has a constitutional right to a bond.”
The repossession murder took place on June 10th, but prosecutors said the car had been moved several times to avoid being repossessed before then and that when Hughes came to get the car, Essence woke everyone up in the house, and her brother went outside to deal with it. Hughes was found shot in the head but was still breathing when Richland County Deputies arrived. The vehicle and several surrounding homes were found with bullet holes.
Her brother, Raheem Jackson, stands accused of murdering Hughes and his bond has not been set. Both suspects are booked at Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
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]]>Brooklyn, NY – September 12, 2024 – Last Friday, a video went viral of a man stealing the tow truck from a repossession agent. After a short joyride that left a trail of destruction to the neighborhood and his own truck he fled. After several days on the run, police have identified and arrested him. See the Video!
Last Friday, videos began emerging from a wild repossession attempt on 53rd Street between First and Second avenues in Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.
The video documents a borrower confronting and threatening an unnamed Repo man and ordered him to “put [his] f***ing truck down” . Seconds later, he jumped behind the wheel of the tow truck.
The video goes on to show the borrower careening like a pinball down the street in the tow truck. Slamming into multiple cars parked along the street, he caused damage to probably a dozen cars before defeating the whole purpose of his rampage.
During the mayhem, the suspected borrower, now identified as 55-year-old Russell Laiosa of East Islip, NY, turned the corner in the tow truck with his own truck still on the wheel lift and the tires not tied down.
Falling from the wheel lift, his truck flipped off the lift and onto its side. Laiosa quickly abandon the tow truck and ran off on foot.
After a weekend in hiding, Lairosa was apprehended.
He has since been booked on 1 count of robbery in the second degree, 1 count of grand larceny auto, 2 counts of reckless endangerment, and 11 counts of property damage and leaving the scene of an accident.
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]]>It all started back on July 31st at about 9:25 pm when Miami-Dade police officers arrived at a call at 400 block of Northeast 160th Terrace. It was there they met a repossession agent employed by Heat Recovery & Towing who had attempted to repossess a 2018 silver Lexus NX300 owned by 34-year-old Rony Guerrier.
According to the unnamed agent, he had spotted the car using LPR and was in the process of backing up to it and lifting it when he realized Guerrier was inside the car. Guerrier then emerged from the Lexus when the agent identified himself as a repossession agent and explained to Guerrier that the car was being repossessed at the request of the lender.
Police state the agent said that the situation then escalated and that Guerrier fired a gunshot. Wisely, the agent then retreated to his truck. Fearing more gunfire, the agent lowered the Lexus back down to the ground and began driving away.
But according to the agent, that wasn’t enough and as he was fleeing the scene, Guerrier chased him in the Lexus. It was then that Guerrier allegedly fired a second shot directly at the tow truck.
Police report that the tow truck was equipped with CCTV video, which investigators said captured the entire confrontation, including the gunfire.
Unfortunately, by the time the Miami-Dade police had arrived, Guerrier and the Lexus were long gone. Police report that the agent did not sustain any injuries and that his truck was not hit by any of the rounds fired during the incident.
Investigators quickly launched an investigation into Guerrier’s identity and whereabouts and entered his car into the national law enforcement database as a “felony vehicle,” the report stated.
A thousand miles and two days later, at about 2:45pm on Aug. 2ndSpeedway, Indiana police located Guerrier’s 2018 Lexus NX300 in the parking lot of an apartment complex where they took Guerrier into custody without incident.
Upon his arrest, police discovered that Guerrier had cut off his medium-length dreadlocks to hide his identity and even found a bag containing his cut dreads in the Lexus. In addition, a Los Angeles Lakers jersey that he had worn during the Miami-Dade shooting was found which only further confirmed his identity.
While the gun was not found in the Lexus or in his possession, investigators said they located 9mm ammunition and a holster. Guerrier later admitted to police that he had pawned the gun to finance his escape from Florida on August 1st.
The gun was recovered by police and identified as a 9 mm Glock Model 17 and is currently being held as evidence for forensic comparison with a 9mm shell casing recovered from the crime scene.
Guerrier is facing one count each of second-degree attempted murder, shooting or throwing a deadly missile and tampering with physical evidence.
Guerrier was extradited to Miami-Dade County to face prosecution and was formally arrested Wednesday. As of Thursday, he is being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where his bond has not yet been determined.
Source: Local10.com
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]]>Miramar, FL – August 7, 2024 – For all the positives of carrying firearms during a repossession, there are some negatives. Unfortunately, for the father of a used car lot owner, he found this out the hard way and now faces more than 12 years in prison for charges of armed kidnapping.
Erik Hadad, 58, of Aventura, the father of a man whose son owns a Miramar used car dealership is facing more than 12 years in prison after he tried to repossess a car for non-payment in the parking lot of a Miami Tri-Rail station last year.
With a handgun tucked in his waistband, he followed Schneider Jean Louis from Jean Louis’ home in Miami Shores to a Tri-Rail station parking lot at 3797 NW 21st Ave. in Miami on Dec. 19, 2023.
According to records filed in federal court, Jean Louis, 25, had made two payments on his silver 2020 Honda Accord, but both payments bounced, and the lender authorized the car dealer, Guru Auto Sales, to repossess the vehicle.
Guru, located on South State Road 7 in Miramar, is owned by Yarin Hadad, Erik Hadad’s son. The loan had an interest rate of 24.58%.
Jean Louis initially told police he did not know the elder Hadad or why he was being followed, according to police reports. At one point on the journey south, both cars stopped at a red light and Hadad got out to try to talk to Jean Louis, removing the vehicle’s paper temporary tag.
Jean Louis drove away and went to the parking lot, where Hadad caught up with him again. The first police reports indicate that Hadad showed Jean Louis his gun and ordered him out of the vehicle, snatched the keys and drove off in the Honda, leaving his own black BMW behind. Hadad brought the Honda to his son, who showed up in the same parking lot, according to the initial police report.
That first account of the incident left out many details that came to light as the investigation continued, including the bounced checks and the loan agreement between Jean Louis and Guru, according to court records. That agreement, signed in October 2023, authorized repossession if the buyer defaulted within the first 60 days of the loan.
Defense lawyer Russell Williams, who represents the elder Hadad, said his client identified himself to Jean Louis and never intentionally displayed his gun. According to Williams’ account in a motion to dismiss the federal case, Jean Louis didn’t even see the gun until after he voluntarily surrendered the key. Hadad removed Jean Louis’ other keys from the ring and took only the car key, Williams said.
Hadad’s son knew where to find his father because they were talking by cellphone during the drive from Miami Shores. When the Hadads had control of the repossessed car, they remained at the scene. Williams said they were waiting for a tow truck to take the Honda back to Miramar when Jean Louis called the bank that financed the loan, Guru Auto, a friend, and finally 911.
Police tried to question the Hadads, who declined to answer them, according to records. They were arrested and charged with armed carjacking by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office.
Those charges were dropped two weeks ago after Jean Louis was questioned in a deposition. In that sworn statement, Jean Louis acknowledged ignoring repeated attempts by the dealership to contact him about the missed payments. He also said he did not know the car was being repossessed, despite the fact he called the bank and the dealership before calling police.
But federal carjacking and gun possession charges were filed against the elder Hadad in the spring.
“I think the government is trying to criminalize conduct that is not criminal. There was no intent to steal the car. They owned the car!” said Williams, whose account of the incident draws largely from Jean Louis’ deposition.
The car is still in Jean Louis’ possession, and no payments have been made, Williams said.
“Law enforcement is facilitating the theft of this vehicle from my client,” Williams said. “I just can’t get the prosecutor to see it that way.”
Federal prosecutors say the charges against Hadad are still valid and they intend to proceed with the case, according to court records. The trial is scheduled to start in October.
Kids don’t try this at home, and by kids, I mean car dealers. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. As the Eagle XX motto goes, “professionals hire professionals”.
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]]>Back on September 29, 2022, then 19-year-old Darnell E. Jackson opened fire on an unnamed repossession agent and struck his truck. Fortunately for all, other than some rattled nerves, the agent was not injured.
Months had passed by without capture and Jackson thought he was off the hook. But the only thing behind him On December 16th were flashing police lights.
Heart racing; he was sure they knew he was holding, so he swallowed the drugs and pulled over. But this routine traffic stop turned out worse than he expected and his bad decision to open fire on a repossessor had caught up with him.
Soon after his arrest, he is said to have reported to the police that he was feeling ill as the results of the swallowed drugs.
Fast forward two years and Jackson is finally held accountable for his irresponsible actions of that night.
According to Jackson’s attorney Scott Cochran, Jackson, now 21, was at his brother’s house, along with others, when a person showed up “early in the morning and is taking one of the cars that is in the driveway. He thinks somebody is stealing it.”
But as it turned out, that person was a Repo Man there to repossess a car.
Another person fired a weapon too, but that person was never identified or prosecuted, Cochran said. “There’s weapons in the house. They think somebody is stealing their car. The shot goes through a side mirror off of the passenger side of the car being towed,” Cochran said.
Cochran told Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge John Durkin there was no “legal justification” for Jackson firing a gun at the person removing the car.
“But I do think there is a distinction between trying to shoot a person on the street over a drug deal or something like that, which is what many of these cases are about, and that’s not what this is,” Cochran said.
He said Jackson’s parents were in court Thursday, and Jackson is “one of the most respectful clients I have ever represented,” and he is “smart” and “capable of doing things with his life.” His brother was a homicide victim, and the case was tried in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, Cochran said.
“He is acutely aware of what this cycle of violence we have in this community is because he and his family have been victims of that.”
He said Jackson’s decision making that day was “clearly the wrong decision,” but Jackson could “come out of prison and be a very productive person.”
Jackson said, “I’m still young. I’m living and learning, and I just hope I can overcome my situation.”
Jackson pleaded guilty Thursday to felonious assault and a gun specification and a separate aggravated drug possession offense for firing the gun on Plum Street just west of downtown Sept. 29, 2022. Some other charges were dismissed in exchange for his guilty plea.
The judge sentenced Jackson to 4 to 5.5 years in prison.
Prosecutors said they would not oppose Jackson being released on judicial release when the appropriate time comes. Judicial release is an early release from prison approved by the sentencing judge.
Kyle Hilles, assistant county prosecutor, told the judge the reason prosecutors recommended the 5 to 7 years was because shooting at the repossession worker not only could have been injured or killed, “but any stray bullets could have injured anyone else who was around.”
Source: Vindy.com
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Numerous Pennsylvania agents have stopped visiting the Philadelphia police districts in recent years to report repossessions a change from decades of adhering to a policy in the police department’s book of directives. Simply citing we don’t have to!
Directive 12.5 which is in found in the Philadelphia police departments book of directive which in short is the employee handbook for policy and procedures for Philadelphia police department employees goes on to state that members of the department will inform anyone repossessing a vehicle they must report to the district with jurisdiction over the repossession location immediately following the recovery for inspection.
This consisted of agents having to write up their own police report known as a “48” form then turn it into the district operations room and an officer working in the district would come outside to verify vin (which they never do) and then go back inside and run the vehicle through NCIC and internal system known as PCIC for any wanted or stolen statuses. Then the agent would be provided with a signed copy of his report.
This process without any hiccups in itself, is a 30–45-minute process ON EACH REPOSSESSED UNIT meanwhile the agent is sitting in limbo with the car on the hook out front of the district blocking traffic, beacons flashing and simply a sitting target for a crazed debtor with nothing to lose that may have a tracker on the vehicle or knows the policy.
If the vehicle comes back stolen officers will force the agent to drop the vehicle or threaten arrest. If its shift changes, agents wait over 90 minutes. If computer systems are down district supervisors order agents to return vehicle to repo’d location and re repo unit when systems are back up or threaten arrest.
If the staff inside are having a bad day or have been repo’d themselves. Forget it, get your pillow ready, you’re in it for the long haul.
Pennsylvania is one of few states that require Repossessors to be licensed as such, they are governed, monitored and regulated by the PA Dept Of Banking and securities “DOBS”. As such they have made a motor vehicle sales finance act which is the law of the land in the commonwealth.
Following the return from covid. One, Montgomery County based recovery agency (which will remain anonymous) found that a GPS repo they had recovered and brought to the district had not had the title flipped yet to the new debtor and lienholder due to the overwhelming backlog of the PENNDOT due to backlog from limited employees returning to work.
Since the vehicle was still in the previous owner’s name, a sergeant with the 14th district ordered the agent to return the unit and going as far as even order a radio car to escort the agent to verify its return. The agent, knowing the lien was valid and still having access to the installed GPS. returned after the police shift change and recovered the unit faxing the repo order to the district and hightailed it out of city.
This caused the Montgomery County based recovery agency owners to review all actual “legal” requirements in notifying police departments of repossessions to come up with a simpler way.
The agency realized that the book of directives is not enforceable to anyone not employed by the police dept. Per the consumer code by the DOBS which is also adopted into the motor vehicle code simply states:
The repossessor of a motor vehicle shall give notice within 24 hours after the repossession to:
(1) the local municipal police department having jurisdiction of the area where the motor vehicle was located at the time of repossession; or
(2) the Pennsylvania State Police, if no municipal police jurisdiction exists.
“After reviewing this information with multiple attorneys. It was cut and dry we only need to provide notice! This is the law of the land it doesn’t matter what the police dept policy is, that’s irrelevant to us. It can be sent by pigeon as long as we have proof we provided notice we are good to go”
The city of Philadelphia is classified in the commonwealth as a city of the first class due to its population of at least one million people. This classification system is used to regulate municipal affairs and each class has different powers and limits.
This allows the city to amend certain state or federal laws to better the residents of their city. However, in this instance even if the city were to pass a city ordinance requiring agents to come to the district (which is currently non-existent) it would not be enforceable against agents based outside of city limits. Due to the preemptive state law set by the PA DOBS
“When we switched to a complete digital notification system utilizing our RDN’s email and fax features the suburban Philadelphia police departments went along with the program understanding the logistics with the overwhelming demand of vehicles needing to be repossessed.
We have dozens of saved emails and countless hours or call recordings into our office over a 3-year period of phone calls from Philadelphia police district commander’s, lieutenants down to regular desk officers in Philadelphia threatening of agent arrests, impounding of tow trucks, referrals to city and state enforcement agencies. All of which are illegal harassing tactics to get us to comply with something that’s not legally enforceable.
We felt that sending both an email and fax to the district was a fair compromise that they just wouldn’t comply with causing us to threaten them with legal action after they sent a slanderous letter to one of our direct lenders”
“We will not be bullied into believing what we are doing is illegal when it’s not.”
“We are glad we were able to pave a path for other agencies to better their clients’ needs like it did for us”
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Madison County, AL – July 9, 2024 – 47-year-old Warren Siao was arrested for the murder of 38-year-old repossession agency owner, Jayson Click on December 13th of 2023. Click was granted bail and posted a $60K bond. As a condition of the bond, under Alabama law, someone who is out on bond cannot leave the state without notifying the court. Siao has been reported to have been located in Nevada.
The bondsman for a man accused of shooting and killing a tow truck driver says the accused shooter is not in the state.
Warren Siao is accused of shooting and killing 38-year-old Jayson Click during a repossession on December 13, 2023. He was arrested and charged with murder.
Currently Siao is out on a $60,000 bond and his bondsman says he is in Nevada.
“If we do catch them out of state and we have not been notified, then we will revoke their bond,” Angelo Contino with Betta Bonds said.
Under Alabama law, someone who is out on bond can not leave the state without notifying the court. However, the owner of Betta Bonds says Siao told him exactly where he was headed.
“We have to feel completely comfortable with it. Because you do have some individuals that will come up with an excuse,” Contino said. “This specific individual, no, I don’t feel like he’s a flight risk or anything like that.”
Prosecutors in the Madison County District Attorney’s Office say Siao never received permission to leave Alabama and is in violation of his bond terms.
Attorney Mark McDaniel who is not affiliated with this case offered his view.
“If a defendant bonds out of jail, there is a statement in there that says what he can and cannot do and one of those things is that he can’t leave the state,” McDaniel said.
At this time a trial date has not been set for Siao.
Source: WAFF
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