Decatur, AL – November 15, 2024 – They didn’t pull the trigger, but they did request the police standby that led to the death of borrower Stephen Perkins. Now, the Repossessors and the agency they work for are facing a wrongful death lawsuit. While successfully moving the lawsuit to arbitration, the arbitrator is not necessarily one with a history of good relations with the repossession industry, it is the Alabama Better Business Bureau.  

Named in the lawsuit are the Lender, Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed), America’s second-largest federal credit union, serving over 2.9 million members worldwide with $35.4 billion in assets as of November 1, 2023, according to their website.

Allstar Recovery and the repossessors involved in the incident were named as Caleb Combs and Richie Brady.

The Shooting

As previously reported, 39-year-old father and borrower Stephen Perkins, was gunned down by officers from the Decatur Police Department outside his home on September 29 in Decatur, Alabama. Police claimed that a repossessor, later identified as employed by All Star Recovery, had previously attempted to repossess Perkins truck when it is alleged that Perkins pulled a gun on him. This resulted in the agent calling 911.

While police have yet to release police bodycam footage of the incident, video surveillance cameras captured from neighbors captured the moment Perkins was gunned down. A total of eighteen rounds were fired at him.

Video was also captured showing an agent from Allstar Recovery towing away Perkins truck as he laid dying just feet away. He begins leaving the scene after about 30 seconds into the video while officers can be seen still patting the dying Perkins on the ground behind him. Perkins’ final words were said to be ‘help.’

The video footage had triggered renewed outrage in Decatur at both the police department for allowing the repossession to commence and at All Star recovery whom local activist claim was a needless death. 

In the video, at Decatur officers can be seen standing over the body of Perkins in his front lawn after gunning him down. At the same time, the repossession agent can be seen towing away Perkins’ white GMC Sierra.

The Decatur Police only made things worse when they admitted to reporting a crucial piece of their original allegations that Perkins had been told to drop a gun that he’d been holding but had refused to follow the orders to do so.

Decator Police Chief, Todd Pinion later said Perkins had been ordered to ‘get on the ground’ by officers who’d identified themselves as police. Video evidence showed that officers opened fire before the final order was given when Perkins pointed his flashlight reportedly attached to his pistol. The omission of this critical detail created a firestorm of outrage and suspicion by neighbors and the community.

The lawsuit against Officer Bailey Marquette has been allowed to go forward, but a federal judge has dismissed several claims in the lawsuit, including those filed against three former Decatur police officers – Christopher Mukkadam, Joey Williams and Vance Summers and the City of Decatur.

The repossession company, Allstar Recovery and the two employees have argued they want the claims against them handled by an arbitrator, saying the Perkins family’s claims fall under the arbitration clause laid out in the purchase agreement for Stephen Perkins’ truck.

In a September court filing, Perkins family lawyers argued that the wrongful death claims in the case fall outside the scope of the arbitration agreement because they are not contract-related. They also argued that since the company chose the arbitration forum, they should not be required to arbitrate claims to an ‘unidentified and unknown’ arbitrator.

But the order granting a motion to compel arbitration on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Corey Maze said the question of whether arbitration is the right forum, the “arbitrability,” would be up to the Better Business Bureau of North Alabama to decide.

“Allstar contacted the contractually agreed upon arbitrator—the Better Business Bureau of North Alabama—about this case. But the Better Business Bureau of North Alabama declined to serve as arbitrator … All that BBB must do is arbitrate the scope of the arbitration agreement. If the BBB finds that the claims Perkins brings don’t fit within the scope of the arbitration agreement, then the BBB can simply send Perkins’s claims back to this court,” the filing says.

Documents state the BBB’s arbitration process is intended to “resolve disputes between a buyer and a seller, and a wrongful death claim exceeds the capabilities,” of that process. The BBB previously declined to arbitrate the matter, citing this process. The court also denied Allstar Recovery’s motion to dismiss the claims against them.

Despite the claims against three of the former officers and the City of Decatur being dropped, the claims against Marquette were allowed to move forward because the court found the Perkins’ family lawyers — at this stage — made a successful argument that Marquette’s use of deadly force was not justified.

“Assuming these facts are true, Officer Marquette would not be entitled to qualified immunity because, when Marquette used deadly force, Perkins was neither trying to leave the scene nor posing a serious threat of physical harm to others,” The court said. “Nor did Marquette warn Perkins that he might use deadly force before he shot him.”The judge also said that the dismissals, including of some claims against Marquette, were done “without prejudice” and he will allow the Perkins’ family lawyers to reargue the claims one more time.

Marquette’s criminal trial in the case is set for April.

Source: Yahoo News

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“He’s shooting at me! He’s shooting at me!” – 911 Call

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 30^th 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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The original incident occurred back on October 9^th at about 2:30pm, when 40-year-old Repossessor and father of two, Benjamin Bolton and a coworker spotted a white van assigned for repossession at the 900 block of Broadway in Houston. Already having one repossessed vehicle on the tow truck and having keys to the van, Benjamin hopped behind the wheel.

Having successfully cleared the area, all seemed safe until two miles later at the 7900 block of Harrisburn Blvd. It was there that reportedly two vehicles arrived. One blocked him off from the front and one pulled up alongside him.

It was then that allegedly three men opened fire on him firing a reported thirteen rounds into the van. Eight rounds struck Benjamin. Three struck him in the arm, three in the abdomen, one in the pelvic area, and one became lodged between his heart and his lung.

Bolton was rushed to Ben Taub Hospital where doctors began the first of what will be many surgeries.

According to his interviewed mother; “They had to actually leave his stomach open because they didn’t know what kind of damage, because there was so much blood and trauma. They didn’t want to close him up, and come back and open him up again to make sure they didn’t miss something,”

She added,” Tow truck drivers get a bad rep, but they just do their job. That’s a job to them, to pay the bills and feed their families and there is nothing in this world worth killing somebody over.”

After almost three weeks, on October 30^th, the Police have named and charged Brandon Munoz, 19, with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon as the investigation continues.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Brandon Alezander Munoz or in this case is urged to contact the HPD Eastside Patrol Division at 832-395-1580 or speak anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.

Source: CW39 Houston

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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 22^nd, 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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Isabella County, MI – October 23, 2024 – It was in broad daylight on a rural country road when the Repossessor showed up to repossess a vehicle. With no one emerging from the residence, he failed to notice the armed man on a tractor coming up on him.

According to the Isabella County Sheriff’s Office, an unnamed repo man in a tow truck went to a rural country residence on the 5000 block of South Lincoln Road in Union Township at around 11:30 am to repossess a vehicle.

That’s when police say a 29-year-old suspect pulled out a handgun and began firing shots at the Repossessor from a tractor he was operating on the roadway.

Fortunately, the agent was not hit and did not report any injuries.

As fate would have it, a detective and deputy were just across the road on an unrelated call and were quick to apprehend the suspect inside his home. They quickly located the firearm and several spent shell casings found at the scene.

While the agent emerged from the incident reportedly unscathed, Investigators took the suspect to an area hospital for treatment of a minor injury sustained when he allegedly pounded his head against a plastic divider inside a police patrol car.

The suspect was then transported to the Isabella County Jail where he awaits arraignment on charges of assault with intent to murder and assault with a dangerous weapon. The suspect’s name was not released Wednesday because he had not yet been arraigned.

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Charlotte, NC – September 30, 2024 – In a heavy rain, at 7:00 am on the morning of September 26^th, 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.

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Debtor wasn’t even out for repossession

Hialeah, FL – September 25, 2024 – When a borrower gets behind on car payments, they can get a little paranoid. So paranoid, that when they see a Repo Man they can make assumptions that lead them to ram their truck into the tow truck, pull a gun on him and then chase him for miles while firing on him. Of course, none of this was necessary, he wasn’t even out for repo.

The unnamed Repossessor was only driving through the neighborhood checking plates in the area of West 21th Court and 56th Street. Little did he know that Daniel Betancur, of Hialeah had seen him. Enraged by paranoia or vengeance from a different encounter, Betancur proceeded to ram his truck into the tow truck.

Producing a gun, he allegedly aimed it at the repossession agent. Wisely, the agent fled, but Betancur wasn’t done with him yet and he took chase.

For a reported miles long chase, Betancur allegedly fired numerous shots at the agent until an officer in Medley intervened and took the man into custody.

Betancur is facing multiple charges including 2nd degree attempted murder and aggravated stalking.

According to police, Betancur’s truck wasn’t even out for repo. The unnamed Repossessor was not struck by any bullets, nor was his truck according to police.

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“You’re going to die today,”

Oakland, CA – September 20, 2024 – One unfortunate repossession agent found out the hard way that some people have a pretty special love for their Cadillac. Taking gunfire, he also learned to be careful with what you leave within reach of the borrower in the bed of his tow truck.

Back on August 31^st, an unnamed Repossessor had already lifted a Cadillac with his tow truck lift when he met it’s RO. The also unnamed, 51-year-old borrower residing on the 7800 block of Crest Avenue had allegedly exited the residence and opened fire with two rounds.

Angry and ranting “You’re not taking my car,” the man allegedly grabbing the victim’s jack handle in the bed of his tow truck and began punching him repeatedly. The agent suffered a head injury and later told police his attacker told him, “You’re going to die today,” during the assault, authorities said.

The suspect borrower told police that he believed the repo man was actually a person who had been breaking into vehicles in the neighborhood and claimed that he actually helped the Repo Mand when he found out what was actually doing.

Police reported that when they arrived they found the victim Repossessor was outside in a pool of his own blood and the suspect was inside his nearby home. The suspect later admitted he knew he had incurred an outstanding debt of $2,000, authorities said.

The borrower has been released on $60,000 bail, with court-ordered conditions that include an understanding that police can search his home for weapons at any time, and that he stay away from the victim. His next court date has been set for October.

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Carthage, TX – September 20, 2024 – Tragedy struck late Tuesday as police discovered a tow truck with a vehicle attached to it, running and unoccupied. Beneath the truck, they discovered the body of repossession agent Jason Lewis. Reeling, his widow and five children need help!

According to the Carthage PD, at 11:22 p.m. on Tuesday the 17th in the 800 block of South Adams Street, officers discovered a tow truck running and attached to another vehicle, both unoccupied. Upon closer examination, they found 39-year-old repossession agent Jason Lewis crushed to death beneath his tow truck.

It was later discovered that the truck was in gear. It is believed that he had disconnected the transmission linkage of the repossessed vehicle while forgetting to put the tow truck in park and set the brake.

Stepping up as always, the Recovery Agents Benefit Fund (RABF) came to help with the family’s immediate need for donations and help to make funeral arrangements. But for his wife of 13 years, Allison and their five children, their world has been turned upside down, as Jason was their world and sole provider.

In his obituary, Jason is described as” a fun-loving individual who enjoyed the outdoors. He liked hunting, fishing and camping, along with telling jokes and stories. He collected guns as a hobby and during his free time he loved watching all sports, played fantasy football, and a mean game of 42. Jason was a volunteer firefighter with the Payne Springs Fire Department, where he liked to help people anytime he could,”

Funeral services for Jason are scheduled for Tuesday, September 24, 2024, at 2:00pm at the Eubank Cedar Creek Funeral Home in Mabank, Texas.

While the RABF have valiantly covered the expenses of the funeral, the Lewis family face huge financial burdens without him and desperately need your help. Jason had no life insurance, and he was their sole earner. For donations, a GoFundMe page has been established to cover them as they recover from this tragedy.

Please Give Generously!

A tow truck funeral procession is scheduled for Tuesday the 24^th in Mabank, Texas at 3:30pm at the intersections of 501 S. 3^rd St and 3^rd.

Lessons Learned Through Tragedy

This is a story we have reported several times through the years and the most recent in Florida on May 3^rd of 2022 when agent Brian “Rome” Marroquin died in the same manner.

I urge all agency owners and agents to share this story and that of Brian Marroquin with all staff and continuously reinforce training on safety to all staff so that it will be many more years until we must report a tragedy of this type again.

Kevin Armstrong

Publisher

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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 11^th, 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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It all started back on July 31^st 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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