Stolen or not stolen

[acmb05]

What is the name of your state? Tennessee

I loaned a car to a friends father to drive to work for a few days as he had to buy a car himself. He came home everyday for 4 days and then on payday I never saw him again. I now find out from his daughter that he has a crack habit and is probably off doing drugs somewhere. It has been almost 2 weeks since I last saw him. I do know he is still in the area he just does not come over nor has he contacted me to return my car.

My question is can I report the car as stolen and that way the police will be looking for it also and if he were to get pulled over they would contact me to come get my vehicle, or will I have to sue him in small claims court if they can find him to supeona him.

I am leaning on reprting it stolen and just haveing him arrested.

 

[stephenk]

do you know if he has gone to work in the past 2 weeks? If yes, on Monday go to his job with your spare car key and get your car back.

Pray he hasn't sold your car for a $20 rock.

 

[gawm]

Pray he hasn't sold your car for a $20 rock.

can't sell what isn't yours. However what he probably is doing is lending the car out in return for some smoke time in the crack house. while he is getting high, gang bangers are using you car as the get away vehicle while they are out committing crimes(drive by's, robberies, ect.) i would report it stolen immediately.

 

[acmb05]

I did

go to his wok. They have not seen him since payday.

 

[etsteve]

He didn't steal it - you gave him the keys

I had an incident similar to this, and the police declined to pursue theft charges because I "loaned" something and didn't get it back. They explained that if the offending party took it without my permission, that would be different. They said it was now a civil matter and not a criminal matter.

 

[acmb05]

I did file a report

I was told that if he did not bring it back within 10 days of me loaning it to him I could report is stolen so thats what I did. They now have an arrest warrant out for him.