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Now they're getting hooked. Cops rounded up a band
of Bronx tow truck drivers who allegedly swiped 16 cars off the streets and sold them as clunkers to a junkyard, police said.The drivers, who were working independently, made
$400 to $500 for each car they dumped as scrap metal at New England Auto Parts in the Bronx, police said. They got away with
the scam by using phony information on DMV forms, which allows cars worth less than $1250 and eight years or older to be scrapped.
NYPD investigators were tipped off after grand larceny
auto numbers suddenly began to spike. “In the Bronx, we noticed a slight increase in grand larceny auto which is unusual,”
said Deputy Inspector Joe Kenny of the NYPD Auto Crimes Division. Investigators began zeroing in on salvage yards and poring
over business records, soon realizing the cars being junked were stolen. “It seems like it was too tempting for them,”
Kenny said.” These tow truck drivers were acting with impunity, riding around and taking cars."“They thought they could get away with it, without
fear of repercussion.” Kenny added. The suspects were identified as Filpo Malava, 41,
Nicholas Montague,28, Herman Williams, 41, Jose Ayala, 23, Buenaventura Sanchez, 56, and Nickolas Maldonado, 30. They were arrested yesterday and charged with grand
larceny auto and criminal possession of stolen property. Another nine tow truck drivers were also busted and charged with
falsifying business records. of repercussion.” Kenny added.
The suspects were identified as Filpo
Malava, 41, Nicholas Montague,28, Herman Williams, 41, Jose Ayala, 23, Buenaventura Sanchez, 56, and Nickolas Maldonado, 30.
They were arrested yesterday and charged with grand larceny auto and criminal possession of stolen property. Another nine tow truck drivers were also busted and charged with falsifying business records The Clark County School District confirms the suspect arrested for allegedly opening fire on a reality TV crew is a teacher at J.D. Smith Middle School.North Las Vegas police arrested 40-year-old Carlos Barron for attempted murder after he allegedly fired shots at a camera crew filming a reality show.Police say Barron became angry after a van was parked in front of his home on Vigilante Court, near Losee Road and East Centennial Parkway. Police say Barron assaulted one of the people in the van after demanding they move the vehicle.The people in the van belonged to a film crew of the show "Repo Games." They were shooting a repossession that was occurring in Barron's neighborhood.After Barron struck the person inside the van, crew members confronted him. He allegedly pulled a gun from his waistband and opened fire. The victims fled the area before calling police and Barron went back into his home.Police say Barron then barricaded himself inside the house. After a two hours standoff, Barron tried to flee out his back door. He was arrested and taken into custody.Barron was booked into the North Las Vegas Detention Center for attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, aiming or discharging a firearm where a person might be in danger, and obstructing a police officer.Tow truck driver struck, injured
while helping stranded motorists May
17, 2011 5:13 PMA tow truck operator
was rushed to a trauma center Tuesday afternoon with major injuries after he was struck while helping a stranded motorist
on Interstate 15 just south of Oak Hill Road, California Highway Patrol officials said.The unidentified victim was under the stalled van at about 1:30 p.m. hooking up the vehicle
to the tow truck when a dark-colored compact car rear-ended the van and another maroon compact vehicle, CHP Officer Dale Withum
said.“I’m still shaking,”
said Estela Andrade of Victorville, the driver of the stalled van. She was in the van watching the driver hook up her van
when the impact happened. “I still can’t believe it happened.”The tow truck operator sustained major injuries to his legs and was transported to Arrowhead
Regional Medical Center.According
to Andrade, she and her boyfriend, Guillermo Mier, were traveling northbound on I-15 when their van locked up.“It wouldn’t do anything,” Mier
said. “And we were in the second lane so she put on her (hazard) lights and I called a tow truck.”Before the truck they called showed up, the victim
happened upon the stranded couple and offered them some help, Andrade said.“He had already dropped the flatbed and was hooking up the van when I felt the impact,”
said Andrade, still visibly shaken from the crash.According to Withum, the maroon vehicle first came upon the stalled van, stopped and was trying to get around it when
the dark-colored vehicle slammed into both the van and the maroon car, sending the van into the victim.Andrade and Mier suffered minor injuries but refused treatment. It
was unclear if anyone in the maroon or dark-colored vehicle was also injured. CHP officials are investigating the incident Tow truck driver in shootings could be charged A tow truck driver who police believe shot two men attempting to rob him at knifepoint on Milwaukee's northwest side could be charged in connection with the incident.The man was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed weapon following the shootings Friday afternoon in the 9300 block of W. Silver Spring Drive, according to a news release from Milwaukee Police Department spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz.The man, whose age was previously reported by police as 28, was questioned, booked and released, Schwartz said.The suspected robbers, ages 18 and 22, suffered wounds that were not life-threatening and were in custody Monday.According to police, the driver was about to tow a car in the 9300 block of W. Silver Spring Drive when the two tried to rob him at about 12:30 p.m. Friday.After handing over money the driver began struggling with the robbers and suffered a minor cut. He then pulled out a gun and shot the two, police said. Repo company involved in a fatality CHINO HILLS, Calif. (KABC) -- A woman was killed in an accident during the repossession of her car in Chino Hills early Tuesday
morning. At around 1:10 a.m., tow-truck
driver Leo Song arrived at 42-year-old Lisa Marie Via's mobile home on the 15000 block of Monte Vista Avenue to repossess
her 2002 Buick. According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, as Song hoisted the Buick onto his truck, Via came out of her mobile home and asked Song not to take it. Song told Via that he had to do his job and began to drag the vehicle
out of the driveway. While he was driving away, Song lost sight of Via and assumed she was away from the cars. When the tow truck was right in
front of Via's home, her husband came out of the residence and told Song his wife was stuck under the car. Song used a floor
jack to lift the car and repositioned his truck to lift the car even more to get her out. Paramedics arrived and Via was rushed to Chino Valley Medical Center,
where she was pronounced dead at about 3:30 a.m. Authorities said the incident was accidentaland Song would not be charged. The
car belonged to WELLS FARGO BANK and the REPOMAN was "NOT LICENSED TO DO REPO WORK" ,the incident
is now under investigation by Sheriffs Dept investigators and the San Bernandino District Attorneys office. Just a bad...bad...bad
situation for Tow Truck Operator Killed In Washington County Crash A tow truck driver was killed while trying to get a car out of a ditch Tuesday afternoon in Washington County, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office. The crash happened near the intersection of Highways 41 and 33. The southbound lanes of Highway 41 near the Allenton exit were closed as of 5 p.m The State Patrol said the tow truck operator was trying to remove one of the vehicles that had gone into a ditch. He was then struck by a passing car and hit again by a passing semi. The Sheriff's Office said the weather is to blame for the crash. The Sheriff's Office also said it had a serious crash in Newburg Tuesday afternoon that left one person in critical condition and two other people with non-life-threatening injuries.
50 lbs. pot nabbed in tow-truck arm at
border U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized
50 pounds of marijuana in a tow truck's hydraulic arm. (KABC Photo) SAN YSIDRO, Calif. (KABC) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized 50 pounds of marijuana in a
tow truck's hydraulic arm Saturday. CBP agents
chose a Mexican citizen driving a tow truck for an intensive examination at about 6 a.m. Saturday at the San Ysidro border crossing. Using a detector dog and an
imaging system, agents located packages of marijuana inside the rear hydraulic arm of the tow truck. The driver, a resident of Ensenada, Mexico, was arrested and transported to San
Diego County Jail. CBP agents seized the truck
and the drugs.
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