LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A Las Vegas man paid hundreds of {dollars} for a brand-new truck solely to find it had been stolen. Fortunately his quick-thinking led police to a suspect.
Sherman Habibian discovered a brand new GMC truck on the market on Fb Market and negotiated a cope with the vendor. After speaking to the vendor, matching the VIN, and searching on the title he paid the vendor almost $53,000 in money for the truck.
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Habibian then took the truck to the DMV.
“I’m sitting at the VIN Inspection and when they pull up on you and the lights come on my stomach just dropped,” Habibian defined.
“It was a VIN switched stolen vehicle, so we had to impound it, so he was also out the vehicle,” defined JD Decker, the Chief of the Compliance Enforcement Division, the DMV’s police unit.
The DMV usually sees almost three instances every week equivalent to this on the DMV, and many of the instances go unsolved.
Happily for this case, the customer had captured a vital clue.
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A Las Vegas man paid hundreds of {dollars} for a brand-new truck solely to find it had been stolen. Fortunately his quick-thinking led police to the scammer. (Nevada DMV)
“The buyer had a relatively significant amount of information about the seller which often doesn’t happen,” Decker defined.
Habibian had requested for the vendor’s ID when negotiating.
“I didn’t think he would think I would ask for his ID, but I think that did help in the investigation a little bit,” Habibian stated.
Catching the vendor off guard he despatched Habibian a faux ID, however the clues have been there for police. It gave Decker and his group sufficient data to trace down and arrest the suspect, 22-year-old Lastda Vukcevik Rodriguez. He was arrested three days after the sale and charged with two felonies.
JD Decker Chief of the Compliance Enforcement Division for the DMV tracked down the suspect and recognized him as Lastda Vukcevik Rodriuez. He was later arrested and now faces two felonies. (Nevada DMV)
Decker stated the suspect is simply the intermediary in these sorts of scams. His recommendation to keep away from comparable conditions is to not pay in money and meet the vendor at one of many Nevada DMV’s VIN Inspection Stations.
“We’ve had a number of cases where people have done that and we’ve saved them tens of thousands of dollars because our inspectors identified that the vehicle was stolen,” he defined. “Justice was served but he is still out the money.”
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