I am in California
so a couple years back I trusted my uncle in buying a car through a middleman, he didn't own the car but was helping to sell it, from what I heard the guy had no paperwork, I brought the car and transferred it under my name, later on I didn't like it so I went back and did a return, no paperworks were sign just a verbal agreement, so I gave him my car keys and the car back, weeks later my uncle heard he was gonna move, I came back and ask him if that's true, he denied it, found out later he moved, that was 2 years ago, found out this year he brought registration in 2014 even though I did a non operation in 2013, then I asked the dmv about the status(registration) of the car by email, they said it got junked this year, some other guy that I don't know junked it, and the cops don't want to help its a civil matter and the first cop said its still under my name, but the dmv says its not under my name, the second cop maybe thinks that the middleman junk the car which is not true, but still wont open a case, I said: but the guy did something illegal, sold the car illegally, the cop said its still civil, I have old bills of his wife who is involved, this couple has been moving around alot but I do know the location of the wifes parents, the junk yard brought the car even though the owner(me) didn't sign anything
what type/category is this case in for the middleman and his wife and do I have a case against the junkyard? Did the junkyard do anything illegal
some DMV paperworks were involved though like a duplicate title form
so a couple years back I trusted my uncle in buying a car through a middleman, he didn't own the car but was helping to sell it, from what I heard the guy had no paperwork, I brought the car and transferred it under my name, later on I didn't like it so I went back and did a return, no paperworks were sign just a verbal agreement, so I gave him my car keys and the car back, weeks later my uncle heard he was gonna move, I came back and ask him if that's true, he denied it, found out later he moved, that was 2 years ago, found out this year he brought registration in 2014 even though I did a non operation in 2013, then I asked the dmv about the status(registration) of the car by email, they said it got junked this year, some other guy that I don't know junked it, and the cops don't want to help its a civil matter and the first cop said its still under my name, but the dmv says its not under my name, the second cop maybe thinks that the middleman junk the car which is not true, but still wont open a case, I said: but the guy did something illegal, sold the car illegally, the cop said its still civil, I have old bills of his wife who is involved, this couple has been moving around alot but I do know the location of the wifes parents, the junk yard brought the car even though the owner(me) didn't sign anything
what type/category is this case in for the middleman and his wife and do I have a case against the junkyard? Did the junkyard do anything illegal
some DMV paperworks were involved though like a duplicate title form
