Jay’s Towing & Recovery

These people are criminals.
I was in an auto accident. There was cosmetic damage, but it could still be driven. I parked legally on the side of the road after the accident and have the pictures to prove it. This is my only vehicle, the one I take my child to school and the doctor in. After the accident I went to the hospital. When I got out hours later my vehicle was gone. I called the sheriff’s department to find out where it was. By the time I got a ride over there a couple of days later they wanted a whopping $ 500 for my vehicle. They guy kept telling me I needed to «bring the keys and the title» because he already had it in his mind that he was going to steal my vehicle and sell it. Among the charges they had tacked on was $ 100 to prep the vehicle for towing (which amounted to him dumping a bunch of random trash and debris haphazardly into my vehicle) and $ 50 for notification I never received, surely a phone call or a letter. He kept telling me I owed him the money. I didn’t request towing. The correct procedure in these cases is supposed to be stickering the car for at least 24 hours before doing anything with it. Someone else who has dealt with them told me they were a racket, and they are secretly paying off one of the sheriff’s deputies to help them steal cars. I am not a rich person. I’m a poor person. I can’t afford to pay a lawyer to go to court to get me a court order to get back my vehicle. I hope these people go down in flames. They have destroyed my life when I had already had a very bad situation. Now my child will suffer because we’re stranded, and I cannot work.