ImNotACrook
Junior Member
California.
The Story
My Friend got into a spot of trouble.
There was a car that apparently got stolen a couple weeks back and has been missing. The car happens to be the same make and model as my friends car. He bought wheels from some guy that happen to be the wheels of the stolen car. You can already see where this is going, yes? Anyway, he thought about it, and the wheels he bought were cheap compared to how much they cost, he tries to get rid of them and buy some new ones. A shop around the area said they had seen internet posts that those wheels and the car was stolen. They told him to wait and they called the cops. The cops came, and they are now blaming him for stealing cars. They said the wheels, and all the other parts on his car were stolen. ALL of the parts on his car are his. They even said the fenders weren't his. He told them, the police, that the car had been in the shop getting body work and bondo on the fenders when the other car wasn't even missing yet. He asked them to ask the guy whose car was stolen if he had ever put bondo on his car, and he said no. My friend's car has apparent marks from bondo & body work. Now they're saying because he was the "last person in contact with the stolen goods" that he is going to go down for the theft of the car. When he had nothing to do with the stealing of the car at all.
He realizes it looks bad. And he knows he had the wheels on his car, which they took away from him by the way. He also knows he had nothing to do with car theft.
What can happen to him now? Would his criminal action be receiving stolen property? What can he do about this? Is there any way he can prove that he didn't steal it, or that none of the parts on his car are stolen? And if he didn't have knowledge that he was buying stolen wheels, whats the charge then?
Thanks in advance for your help.
The Story
My Friend got into a spot of trouble.
There was a car that apparently got stolen a couple weeks back and has been missing. The car happens to be the same make and model as my friends car. He bought wheels from some guy that happen to be the wheels of the stolen car. You can already see where this is going, yes? Anyway, he thought about it, and the wheels he bought were cheap compared to how much they cost, he tries to get rid of them and buy some new ones. A shop around the area said they had seen internet posts that those wheels and the car was stolen. They told him to wait and they called the cops. The cops came, and they are now blaming him for stealing cars. They said the wheels, and all the other parts on his car were stolen. ALL of the parts on his car are his. They even said the fenders weren't his. He told them, the police, that the car had been in the shop getting body work and bondo on the fenders when the other car wasn't even missing yet. He asked them to ask the guy whose car was stolen if he had ever put bondo on his car, and he said no. My friend's car has apparent marks from bondo & body work. Now they're saying because he was the "last person in contact with the stolen goods" that he is going to go down for the theft of the car. When he had nothing to do with the stealing of the car at all.
He realizes it looks bad. And he knows he had the wheels on his car, which they took away from him by the way. He also knows he had nothing to do with car theft.
What can happen to him now? Would his criminal action be receiving stolen property? What can he do about this? Is there any way he can prove that he didn't steal it, or that none of the parts on his car are stolen? And if he didn't have knowledge that he was buying stolen wheels, whats the charge then?
Thanks in advance for your help.