https://www.click2houston.com/news/...-to-60-years-for-stealing-customers-vehicles/ It's about time the law caught up with this s***. He's been ripping people off for years. GALVESTON, Texas – A vintage car repairman who ripped off customers by stealing the very vehicles he promised to repair has now been sentenced. Richard Finley, 48, the owner of Cl***ic American Street Rods, was found guilty in December of property theft exceeding $300,000 following a months-long investigation by the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office.
This is AMAZING News! Such a great hobby, these s*** stick out like sore thumbs & it is nice to see them removed. Same thing in my Transport industry, hoping for the same outcome for one that has been screwing over car guys for 20 years. I believe there is still an active arrest warrant out on him in Kentucky, so Maybe..... God Bless Bill https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/
Really glad he's been stopped! Gotta wonder if there have been numerous suits why this wasn't sooner. Real doubt that 48 year old s*** will serve 60 years and pay back 495K. Sounds like there will be more legal wrangling to recover money.
There was a guy I seen (Facebook) in the Midwest that was doing the same, last time he moved he left a bunch of customer muscle cars in a storage yard. The storage yard was trying to track down the owners, some that had no idea anything was wrong. One car was missing engine/trans and it had come in for something that had nothing to do with engine/trans
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