Need help finding my 914 and getting it back! SoCal/Inland Empire, I parked my 914 at a "trusted" neighbors house when I went in the Navy, they fraudulently SOLD IT while I was gone! |
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Need help finding my 914 and getting it back! SoCal/Inland Empire, I parked my 914 at a "trusted" neighbors house when I went in the Navy, they fraudulently SOLD IT while I was gone! |
HellaFella |
Aug 12 2014, 12:19 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 12-August 14 From: Humboldt CA Member No.: 17,769 Region Association: None |
I joined the Navy in 2010 and obviously couldn't take my 914 with me so I parked/left (I kept the keys) it at a "trusted" neighbors house. When I came back on leave to collect it they were gone! I talked to another neighbor and found out their house had been forclosed on and they moved to Oregon just the week before. Also that same week neighbor said they had SOLD MY PORSCHE!! Like I said I had kept the keys, so I was confused how this happened, said a fella showed up with a flatbed and winched it aboard! She told them she was my mother and was selling my car because I had left it with her, falsifying my/her signature on the title and everything... Tried taking it up with the California DMV and they told me I had to file some sort of fraud complaint and that it had nothing to do with DMV. Being on a short leave period and not even knowing what to do next I said fuckit, now I'm a civilian again and would love to get that car back. If anyone has any ideas or help with what I can do that would be well appreciated!
I lived in Crestline CA, [in the mountains near Lake Arrowhead] San Bernardino county California BLUE PLATE. 270 EWZ Rivera wheels I got some really good feedback on the Facebook page and hope this can aattract more attention to this situation, hopefully this story will have a happy ending, I'll keep you updated! THANKS EVERYONE!! -JD (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.914club.com-17769-1407867552.1.jpg) |
HellaFella |
Aug 12 2014, 07:43 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 12-August 14 From: Humboldt CA Member No.: 17,769 Region Association: None |
Wow, the things that can happen in a day. Actually dug into some old boxes from 2+ moves ago dug through paperwork from '07 and found my original title. Called San Bernardino sheriff, they said my best bet was with DMV "Fraud Investigator," but that the would forward my "case" to a deputy also. I'm in far NorCal now, so DMV gave me a NorCal investigator phone #. After conversing with that fella, I find out that A) he recently inherited a 914 of his own and is in the process of restoring it. And B) I need to contact DMV investigation in the Inland Empire, where all this took place... But after his conversation I was contacted 6-7 times by the San Bernardino deputy who seemed to take great interest in my case. Tracked down the vehicle.. it was last registered to an address in Moreno Valley in 2012. It was sold twice after I'd disappeared from my posession. The Deputy contacted those two sellers and the most recent one said that he sold the car to "a man with a European accent." It hasn't been registered since 2012 + the accent prompted the deputy to speculate that I could have possibly been shipped back to europe. He also said that is a long-shot, but we can always investigate with Immigration/Customs to see if that VIN# left the country.. Currently he is trying to track down the people that I left the car with, we ascertained their legal identities and he is trying to find them (now out of state). He's filing criminal charges of Embezzlement, Forgery, and Fraud with the D.A. If I remember correctly. And then said he will be contacting me throughout the week.
I was amazed how much traction I got with the Deputy. The DMV investigator I talked with was very frank with the reality of my situation and said a lot of what will happen is just a dice roll on the Sheriff deputy I talk to. Seems I got a good one, and since this happened in the Arrowhead mountains, that was where the department switchboard forwarded me to, to handle the case. It's a smaller and slower detachment, so mebbe I lucked out with a "bored" deputy. But either way he was amazingly helpful, and I feel like I currently have the best chances of anything happeneing. Either way it's still a damn longshot, but hey.. something |
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