The Repo Man Cometh
Chattanooga, TN
The owner of a Hooker Road towing company, who is already facing charges of impounding cars and junking them for scrap metal without the vehicle owners knowledge, has been arrested again. He has been accused of towing a legally parked vehicle and then demanding several hundred dollars from the vehicle owner to return the car. While serving the latest warrant, police also found 20 engines that had been stripped from other vehicles sitting in the towing yard. For those keeping score, the charges now include four counts of theft over $1,000, three counts of storing or towing a vehicle without express written authorization and one count of hindering a secured creditor.
Found in the Chattanooga Pulse
September 20th, 2006 at 3:37 am
A towing company on Hooker Road? How appropriate. Not very bright though, if he’s stealing cars with his own trucks and bringing them to his own towyard. Generally chop-shop operators are a bit more careful.
September 20th, 2006 at 8:18 am
Apparently this type of behavior is not all that uncommon. There’s a guy near “Onion Town”, New York that does the same kind of thing — with the same kind of results.
September 20th, 2006 at 10:03 am
I just love a police blotter writer who has a sense of style.