Stolen Car from Used Car Lot
7:08A detective calls a man to say the car he bought from a used car lot is stolen and must be impounded, but the man refuses and demands compensation.
Transcript
129 linesHello.
Hello.
I'm trying to reach a uh Trevor, please.
Okay.
Yeah, that's me.
Sir, you purchased a uh Navy blue from um a used car lot dealership called uh B Car Lot.
I don't know, maybe six or seven months ago, am I right?
Right.
It was six months ago.
Okay.
Now you've been paying notes on this car, I know, for the last six months.
Right.
And you know, I I hate to be uh a a burden of bad news.
Actually, my name is uh Detective Justin, and I'm giving you a call to let you know that the actual vehicle, this two thousand one Navy blue sh that you purchased is actually uh a a a stolen vehicle.
And we've actually been looking for this car for the last uh been pretty much close to a year now, maybe a little over a year, we've been looking for this.
I work in the uh auto theft division and
hold on.
Who you say you are again?
Detective Justin, sir.
And I'm in the uh auto theft division here at the police department.
Auto theft, wait a minute, hold on, hold on, hold on.
I think you got the wrong I think you got the wrong guy, man, because um my car my car's legit.
No, sir.
It's it's it's it's and I've done the trace on on an and I know this is probably uh a shock to you, but it you we're we're right on point with this thing.
You've got a 2001 Navy blue you did buy it, you did buy it at the b car lot dealership, and that uh and it's the exact one the license plates, sir.
They do match up, and uh I know this is a bit of a shock to you, but your car is actually a stolen car.
So the dealership, sir, actually sold you a stolen car.
And I know you did not know that.
I know that it was not any information that you already knew, and I know you thought that you were just purchasing a legitimate car.
But you have a stolen car, uh, Mr.
Trevor.
And uh No, man, no, I think you got the wrong person because this this car is not stolen for real.
Man, this is not stolen.
Sir, I can go all day with you and try to make you understand what's going on here, and I know it's probably some some blurry information that's not clear to you, but at the end of the day, your car is stolen.
I am gonna have to either get someone to come out and impound it, or you
No, no, I I think y'all might need to go back over y'all records then because I think y'all um on the real, I think y'all got the wrong person.
Just it can't be a good one.
Sir, for real.
I'm gonna tell you once, and I'm gonna tell you again, you have a car that's stolen that I have to have in my possession by the end of the day.
You got sir, you you have a stolen car, and you're gonna need to bring that car into the police station so we can get this thing rectified.
I'm a R.
Man.
Hold on, let me talk about this, man.
Because I don't know about all this you're telling me for real.
Sir, I understand what you're saying, but do you realize you're talking to a police officer here?
I am detective, I am detective Justin.
I am oh who you are, man.
I'm still gonna call it.
Hold on, is no longer, sir.
We've had to actually shut them down for the time being until we get a quite a few cars rectified that I've got more than just your vehicle, sir, that's been that that has auto theft tied to it.
Man, hold on.
There's two things.
Either you're gonna bring it to me or I'm gonna come get it.
Now which one you wanna do.
Ain't coming to get for real.
Sir, I don't want to have this to have to get go to a level of where it doesn't need to be.
But I need to get that car in my possession.
Okay, look, look, look, listen what I'm telling you.
Okay, are you listening?
I'm listening, sir.
Okay, look.
Unless somebody's gonna pay me my three hundred at seventy seven dollars at fifty-two cents I've been paying for the last six months.
Unless you're gonna pay me that, give me back my My that I trade in to get this.
Now I ain't trying to hear sh what you talking about.
For real.
Now this is a b you coming at me with, man.
I work too hard to be keeping up these notes right here, man.
And I got that and my wrist to take care of.
And you come to talking about you shouldn't take my car because something that happened before I bought it.
Which I don't even know.
If this is true, like I said, I think you messed I think you got me mixed up with somebody else.
Why the f y'all just now coming at me talking this?
I ain't heard nothing about this before.
Sir, it's taking us a while to actually track down the car and actually find out exactly where it was.
I've I've I've I've tracked this car sweet for the last eight, nine months, and I finally found it.
You are the one that's actually has it in your possession.
It happens all the time.
It's an unlikely situation, but I gotta get you to bring it in.
And I'm I'm saying I ain't bringing in.
You hear me?
I ain't bringing in.
Y'all not coming to get from me unless somebody give me my $37, 52 cents I've been paying for the last six months, plus give my t back.
Sir, I'm sure your probably long gone by now.
That'll mean something.
Okay, then y'all gonna need to at least just come with the money.
Come with the money.
I just go get another license somewhere else.
Sir, I'm not I can't sit here and negotiate with you.
I'm just a detective that's on this actual case.
And I know it's a trying situation, but I am going to have to send some officers out there that that do this type of thing.
They pick up these cars and bring them into the I wish you would send somebody out here to come get my car.
And if you can't negotiate with me, you need to find somebody can.
No, I you know.
You bring somebody out here if you want to.
Don't bring somebody.
I got some f hell.
I've been working too hard, man.
I'm working in a great nation, and then I'm putting it in the overtime and trying to stay late sometimes.
Man, I'm I'm working too hard to try to keep this car, man.
So bring your out here if you want to, for real.
Sir
Sir, sir, calm.
I I I gotta get you calmed down.
I mean you're getting a little out.
My car stole that y'all talking about him to get it from me.
Sir, I I I know this is a surprise, and I understand that.
And you got a great, you got an honest living, an honest job, and I understand that.
But some people have done some dishonest things, and that's what's happened here.
Somebody's done.
That ain't my problem right there.
That ain't my problem.
I'm gonna f y'all up.
That's all I'm saying.
You know what?
I don't want to go any further.
Can I say one more thing to you?
Can I do that?
What?
This is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
You just got pranked by your cousin Eric.
Who did you say this was?
This is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
You got pranked by your cousin.
Trevor, you all right?
Hold on, hold on.
All right, man.
Let me ask you something.
You gotta tell me, baby, what's the baddest radio show in the land?
It's that Steve Harvey morning show.