[SS 376]

Originally Posted by thespymaster

As the title reads "Car Dealer Has Buyer Arrested After Price Error"

Video at :

http://screen.yahoo.com/car-dealer-h...-30786161.html

Priority Chevrolet Dealership in Chesapeake, Virginia made a mistake when they sold Danny Sawyer a new Chevrolet Traverse for $5,600 less than the asking price. So what did they do when they realized this mistake? They had Mr. Sawyer arrested for theft. After spending 4 hours in lockup and getting released on bond, Sawyer did the next logical thing: he sued the dealership for 2.2 million dollars. Well, I guess it IS possible to get a good deal in this crazy world of ours...

By the dealer's logic, a car buyer could have the salesman arrested for fraud if he overpaid for the car.

[Lou_Dorchen]

Originally Posted by zkdreads

2.2 million for WHAT? did he lose his job, wife had a miscarriage, didnt pick up his child from school, the dog wasnt walked in time. I MEAN DAMN

Next to taking a man's life, the worst thing you can take from a man is his freedom. That dealership is lucky the guy only asked for $2.2 million.

[Renegade]

Originally Posted by Lou_Dorchen

Next to taking a man's life, the worst thing you can take from a man is his freedom. That dealership is lucky the guy only asked for $2.2 million.

Doesn't mean he'll get it..he only spent a few hours locked up not like a few years.

[Lou_Dorchen]

From the story:

"The law­suit, which alleges mali­cious pros­e­cu­tion, slan­der, defama­tion and abuse of process, seeks $2.2 mil­lion in dam­ages."

That doesn't include punitive damages, which a judge/jury can add to any of the above damages if the dealership is found at fault. The guy might well make alot more than the $2.2 million. I hope he does. You cant put a price on a man's freedom. How many of you saying $2.2 million is too much have ever been arrested and jailed? And of those, how many of you were arrested only because someone lied to the police about you?

[nighttowl]

maybe the dealership matched another dealerships price without checking it until after the sale.

that would warrant a call to the police i would say.
either way, to sell a vehicle 5k less means there is some serious markups happening at that dealership.

[Russo]

the link is broken... also, the police share some fault as well because if he purchased the vehicle he would have a reciept showing payment.. if the payment was disputed by the dealer, the only thing that could have happened was the dealer taking him to civil court.. when police arrest, they are taking a suspect into custody after charging them with a crime.. the suspect had a legally binding contract for the purchase of the vehicle, he didn't drive off the lot without paying.. in Louisiana, civil court only goes up to $3,000..

[brantley847]

Originally Posted by Renegade

Doesn't mean he'll get it..he only spent a few hours locked up not like a few years.

Cannot put a price on freedom, and this is coming from a police officer.. it is absolutely demoralizing to go through this. Not to mention, even though the charges will (probably already have) been dropped. He will STILL have to go through the process of hiring an attorney to get those charges expunged or sealed from his record. That is a process that can sometimes take YEARS. Even if the victim openly admits, yea, we shouldn't have falsified the claim of theft.

Most people don't realize, every time you are arrested even if your charges are dropped immediately... they show up on background checks by employers and every time police stop you. You have to get those charges sealed and removed every single time... and some charges you cannot remove, some states also restrict how many times you can seal your record. I believe in Florida you are limited to as little as 1-3 times, but I have no experience dealing with that.

If he walks away with anything less than 1 mil from this dealership, I would be shocked. We aren't talking about a person or city who is on a tighter budget.. we are talking about a privately owned business where the owner took responsibility of allowing this to happen.

[brantley847]

Originally Posted by Russo

the link is broken... also, the police share some fault as well because if he purchased the vehicle he would have a reciept showing payment.. if the payment was disputed by the dealer, the only thing that could have happened was the dealer taking him to civil court.. when police arrest, they are taking a suspect into custody after charging them with a crime.. the suspect had a legally binding contract for the purchase of the vehicle, he didn't drive off the lot without paying.. in Louisiana, civil court only goes up to $3,000..

Absolutely they share a portion of the fault, but I'd like to know exactly what was told to police. I cannot see the link either... I could see the city paying out 10-30k... with the dealership getting hit very hard.

[Renegade]

Originally Posted by brantley847

Cannot put a price on freedom, and this is coming from a police officer.. it is absolutely demoralizing to go through this. Not to mention, even though the charges will (probably already have) been dropped. He will STILL have to go through the process of hiring an attorney to get those charges expunged or sealed from his record. That is a process that can sometimes take YEARS. Even if the victim openly admits, yea, we shouldn't have falsified the claim of theft.

Most people don't realize, every time you are arrested even if your charges are dropped immediately... they show up on background checks by employers and every time police stop you. You have to get those charges sealed and removed every single time... and some charges you cannot remove, some states also restrict how many times you can seal your record. I believe in Florida you are limited to as little as 1-3 times, but I have no experience dealing with that.

If he walks away with anything less than 1 mil from this dealership, I would be shocked. We aren't talking about a person or city who is on a tighter budget.. we are talking about a privately owned business where the owner took responsibility of allowing this to happen.

Ofcourse but, he wasn't harmed or pepper sprayed. So if you ask me he's pushing the law and trying to capitalize on it. Not like he'll need a therapist after this just go to another dealership or ford

He wants to sue so he can either pay for one or one will be provided to him. I've lived in florida cops don't play especially if you got New York plates and play loud music you'll get pulled over.

[Lou_Dorchen]

Originally Posted by Renegade

Ofcourse but, he wasn't harmed or pepper sprayed.

He wasn't harmed? Dude, he was thrown in jail because someone lied to the police!

Have you ever been arrested and tossed in jail? And if so, was it because someone just straight up lied about you to the police?

[Renegade]

It happens all the time. Everyone lies at some point..and everything happens for a reason. A 4 hour in jail is worth handing him millions? be smart about it. I'm not saying it was a good thing just citizens feed off these things and blow it out of proportion to get paid one large lumpsum..

[Lou_Dorchen]

Originally Posted by Renegade

It happens all the time.

You're right. It happened to me 3 times just this week. When the police officer is defending the guy over a bs arrest, that ought to tell you something. Like he said, it's gonna cost this poor guy alot more than just 4 hours of annoyance.

Again, have you ever been arrested? And if so, was it because someone lied about you to the police?

[Renegade]

I didn't mean every day the week just it's so common now just the other day a cop shot his son to death by mistake he was playing a prank. Casualties, misleading information, and police brutality won't stop but, it can be prevented.

Like i said it happens all the time atleast he wasn't harmed maybe scared and confused but, If he feels he can get millions out of the situation more power to him he can buy an entire dealership

[PQ]

Originally Posted by brantley847

Absolutely they share a portion of the fault, but I'd like to know exactly what was told to police. I cannot see the link either... I could see the city paying out 10-30k... with the dealership getting hit very hard.

If it were me I'd say this is fair. Along with a clause that stated that ANY further damages to me be taken care of if future problems with my record came up.

It's not like he didn't know what he was being arrested for and that he'd get it straightened out.