Nissan 370Z Forum - Stolen srt8 story

Hey guys, heres the story of my friend's 2009 Dodge challenger srt8

A good friend of mine flips cars. He has been doing so full time out of his shop for the past few years and hes been pretty successful at it. He had his eye on a Challenger srt8 and he bought it one day. Added 22" viper wheels, red seats, and did all the repairwork it needed and listed it for sale.

A guy calls him from chicago and says hes interested in the car. Its not uncommon for him to have customers come from long distances, nor is it for him to travel to meet someone. They agreed to meet in Chicago and had a set price for the car, $23,000. He made the trip up there and performs the test drive. The guy says he has a cashier's check from the bank. Friend calls bank, verifies funds, makes sure everything was legit and they proceed with the transaction. Now im not sure where in the transaction this happens but the customer starts to have a seizure. He falls on the snowy ground and starts shaking. He proceeds to seize (?) for a few minutes, gets up, collects himself, and they finish the transaction.

He comes home (Nashville, 7 hours away), cashes his check, and leedle lees around because he made a good sale. A few days later, the bank calls and tells him they want their money back. The cashiers check had something wrong with it, which i still dont know what exactly, and hes out of luck. The car is long gone and hes out 23k.

He tried calling the guy multiple times, and he always answered and gave him the run around or just hung up on him.

So he files a police report, and a long time went by and we heard nothing. We were basically waiting for the guy to get pulled over in the car or try to register it because it was listed in the national registry as stolen. I was honestly worried that he chopped it or something. Keep in mind, this ************ has the title.

A few days ago, he gets a call saying that the cops found it. Its in a suburb of chicago, Markham. They didnt give any more info, just what impound lot it was at, and what paperwork he needed to get it out.

Yesterday, we made the trip up. We took his flatbed because there was no key to the car anymore, at least not with him. We made it to markham and after 3 hours of run around with the cops we got the release form to get it from the impound lot. Headed over to the impound lot, paid $600 in storage fees, and got the car out.

Heres what we found:
Viper wheels missing, back to stock
Several baby bottles full of lean. Yes, baby bottles
A very high end backpack
Several phone chargers
A flip phone
several cigarillo packs
cracked front bumper
very dirty red seats and carpet
More cashiers checks made out for thousands of dollars to different people
A pair of jordans
A big mess

On the phone, we went through the messages and determined that he went out of town, parked the car illegally, and came back to find it towed. He even had the audacity to go to the police impound lot to try to get it out. He also had messages showing that he has done it to several other people. And lots of drug dealing related messages as well. Just a disgusting person all together.

In the end he got it back, after wasting over a thousand in just gas and storage fees, plus the cost of the missing wheels, bank fees, and fixing the damage, this ordeal will cost around $4k. Even the cops charged us!!

And speaking of which, stay far away from Markham. It is a crappy town full of crooked cops. Speed traps everywhere, it's ghetto, and the police were very uncooperative. There is no way they dont know about this guy and they could definitely take him down if they wanted to. Beware of craigslist and deal only with cash.