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81-Vehicle Theft Looks Like An Inside Job
Omaha World Herald ^ | March 12, 2009 | MAUNETTE LOEKS

Posted on 03/12/2009 7:06:08 AM PDT by Netizen

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — Three Scottsbluff auto dealership executives are expected to be under arrest by this morning after they packed up their belongings, loaded 81 new vehicles onto trucks and left town.

Scottsbluff police, with help from federal authorities, tracked the trio across the southwestern United States on Wednesday as many of the vehicles were sold at auctions.

Felony theft charges were filed in Scotts Bluff County Court on Wednesday against Legacy Auto Sales owner Allen Patch and two of his senior managers: comptroller Rachel Fait, 37, and general manager Rick Covello, 53.

Detectives located Patch, 52, at his attorney's office in Tooele County, Utah, and were waiting to arrest him. Scottsbluff Police Capt. Kevin Spencer said he had not been arrested as of 8:30 p.m. CDT.

Fait was arrested in Tooele County earlier Wednesday. Covello is expected to turn himself in to Scottsbluff authorities today.

According to police, 81 new Ford and Toyota vehicles were loaded onto auto transport trailers from the dealership over the weekend and Monday evening. Scotts Bluff Deputy County Attorney John Childress said the vehicles, among them sedans to pickups, are valued at more than $2.5 million.

According to court documents, plans to title and sell the vehicles at auto auctions were in the works for weeks.

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According to police, dealership employees converted manufacturer documents to ownership titles at the Scotts Bluff County Clerk's Office on Feb. 26 and 27 and then Thursday, Friday and Monday.

It is not unusual for a car dealership to obtain vehicle titles, Spencer said, but in this case, "the cars weren't theirs to sell because they were owned by a Toyota financing company."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Nebraska; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: cartheft; dealership; missing; stolencars
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To: Netizen

That link is just loaded with some great quotes:

“Comptroller Rachel Fait, 37, had been arrested at her Utah home early in the evening.”

“Rachel Fait”She lives here in Tooele,” Tooele County Sheriff Frank Park said. “They just went up to her house and found her.”

Hummm! What was a comptroller for a Nebraska Vehicle Dealership doing living in Tooele. That is one hell of a commute.

We can look forward to more interesting news releases about this woman.


41 posted on 03/12/2009 11:50:30 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foriegn/domestic terrorists, or tax evaders?)
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To: Netizen

What an idiotic scheme. Did they expect they could sell all those cars at auctions and make the border before being caught? Have they never heard of transmission of VINs via the internet and/or telephone?


42 posted on 03/12/2009 11:53:52 AM PDT by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: Grampa Dave

I’m going with guilty, very guilty. Thanks for the update. ;-)


43 posted on 03/12/2009 12:33:31 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Guilty and very stupid.

A potential BHO nominee?


44 posted on 03/12/2009 1:27:24 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Grampa Dave

She looks like a fat Ashley Judd.


45 posted on 03/12/2009 1:34:41 PM PDT by MaxMax (RINO=RAT!)
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To: MaxMax
She looks like a fat Ashley Judd.

So wouldn't that make her look like Wynonna Judd?

46 posted on 03/12/2009 1:35:46 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: dfwgator

Wynonna Judd is to smirky.


47 posted on 03/12/2009 1:37:33 PM PDT by MaxMax (RINO=RAT!)
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To: Paladin2; george76; MaxMax

Geez, you guys are really critical today! Or as the libtards would say, “Judgemental”! bol


48 posted on 03/12/2009 2:54:49 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foriegn/domestic terrorists, or tax evaders?)
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To: Grampa Dave
I read today that 0be is judgmental or has a judicial temperament or something. Why not me too?

Besides, a little, swift, vigilante justice can't hurt on occasion.

49 posted on 03/12/2009 3:13:13 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: Paladin2

Great response in today’s Alice in Wonderland World under the Zer0.


50 posted on 03/12/2009 3:14:28 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foriegn/domestic terrorists, or tax evaders?)
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To: Grampa Dave

Gee for being in financial trouble, how’d she manage to afford two homes. She had put her other home up for sale.


51 posted on 03/12/2009 5:49:45 PM PDT by Netizen
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