Can I turn it in stolen

[Sgt. Slaughter]

Now with that off my chest...How was your day dear?

Effing great. Thanks for asking.

[Creeker]

It isn't like that...this is just a friend's son that I was helping out... by giving him a little work to do in my yard so he could earn a little money. He asked me if I would give him a ride to the store. I was busy so I told him he could take my car... I hadn't payed him yet so I figured he would go to the store and come right back.

Well... hours go by and then a couple of days. I tried several times to call him and no answer. He finally called and said he had been having some problems and he would be at my house around 11:30 am. Still no show...next he text messaged me, and said he would be a little late...well that was last friday. I have known his mother for quite a while and I really do not want to get him in trouble, but I need my car back.

The next communication I had with him was another text that said he would have brought me my car back but he felt like he was being threatend because I told him exact words [I]"(you little ****...you better bring me my *******car back, do not make me have to come look for your little *** and I am serious)".[I]

I would have already turned it in stollen, but several years ago, someone I know loaned a girl her car to go to work in, and she did the same thing and if I remember correctly.... she had to serve her a notarized letter demanding the car be returned before she could even report it stollen. Even then she had to wait another 30 days to do so.

Man I tell you what... no good deed goes unpunished! Jerks like this little snot nose make it hard to trust anyone, even people you know a long time.

At this point I am not even caring, that his mother and I go way back and are pretty good friends...I want his but in jail for stealing....or borrowing my car and just deciding he wants to keep it! Last time I help out a friends kid with anything!

I say that but I am really way to kind for my own good!

Not to mention I feel like a total idiot and the last thing I want to hear is there is nothing we can do! I suppose that is why I haven't already called the police, but I know the longer I wait the more of an idiot I will sound like trying to explain the situation to anyone. So I guess I will have to swallow the ole pride and call the police department tomorrow morning and hope they will not tell me that I am... as dumb as I feel!

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In the mean time, your car has been seized for him transporting drugs inside of it, and you are now a suspect in a drug investigation as the owner...

Get the picture?

[Creeker]

What state are you in?

You could try going to a Court and getting a warrant placed on your friend.....

Can a Mod tell me how a snot nosed know nothing about LE can post a response in Ask A Cop?

[TX-LEO]

If you loan someone you vehicle and they do not bring it back, can you call it in stolen? Someone told me that if you give them the keys you can not report it stolen if they do not bring it back when they are supposed to. Is that true? :confused::(

It's a civil matter. After a certain period though, where you have sent registered mail demand letters for the return of the vehicle it can be listed as stolen but you have to do it correctly and you have to be the registered owner of the car, which I bet you are not.

[cherry76]

In the mean time, your car has been seized for him transporting drugs inside of it, and you are now a suspect in a drug investigation as the owner...

Get the picture?

WHAT??? No way thats it.... son of a friend or not his but is going to get a complaint filed on him right now! Thank you for waking me the F up! I never even gave that a thought but you are right... there is no telling what that little numb skull is doing in MY car.

[cherry76]

It's a civil matter. After a certain period though, where you have sent registered mail demand letters for the return of the vehicle it can be listed as stolen but you have to do it correctly and you have to be the registered owner of the car, which I bet you are not.

I am the registered owner of the car. How much time are we talking about? I have already sent a registered letter, I did that last friday.

[phantasm]

speak to the local police and/or a civil lawyer.

[Sgt. Slaughter]

Can a Mod tell me how a snot nosed know nothing about LE can post a response in Ask A Cop?

This didn't start off in Ask A Cop. It started of in Chat help or something like that and they moved it after Brendon answered.

[Creeker]

This didn't start off in Ask A Cop. It started of in Chat help or something like that and they moved it after Brendon answered.

Thanx. I thought someone had monkeyed with the filters or something.