Car sale nightmare: Police ticket driver for car she no longer owns

My friend's car was STOLEN, and reported. But a year later, they came after him to make him pay a bunch of tickets they put on it when they found it instead of recovering it for him.

"our hands are tied" so even if it is proven to you that she is no longer the owner and has not been for over a year they will still go after her because a citation was issued? Just goes to show you its about the money not the prevention of crime.

This is just lazy government. Anyone that still thinks we have a functioning government, is just fooling themselves.

"Reliable Nissan" Oh the irony.

if DMV thinks she still owns it, go GET it, sell it AGAIN

She should just tell them she wants it back for the price of the fine. Legally it's her car she should just keep it now, sell it again lol.

The woman needs to get a lawyer and sue the state for harassment

Surely the auction house at least has a name of who bought the damn car (or are they all shady-as-shit cash only 'auctions'?)

Gotta love stupid bureaucracy.

I went through a similar situation back in 1997 here in Louisiana. I had traded a 1991 Camaro for a 1995 Astro van (3 kids showed up during that time period). Two years later, I get the sheriff's department show up at my house with a warrant for failure to show up in court for a traffic accident and various parking fines in Mississippi. I had to call the courts in Mississippi to explain that I no longer owned the car since it was a trade-in on a new vehicle. Luckily I still had all the paperwork from the purchase which included information on my trade-in (make, model, VIN) which I faxed over to the courts. I figured the courts would see that the local dealership accepted the car. NO! I needed the dealership to contact the courts. I had to threaten to sue the dealership for them to contact the courts to get it straight. It seemed the dealership had sent the car to an auction house without doing any title transfer. The car was auctioned off, and the auction house showed the car had been sold at auction. PERIOD! No idea who bought it. They just took the cash and handed over the signed title and a general bill of sale for the new owner to register it. Everything perfectly legal, except the new owner failed to register it. The Camaro had gotten several tickets for illegal parking in Mississippi all within a 35 mile radius and a warrant from the county to have it towed on the next ticket. Then someone driving got into a hit-and-run accident that put somebody in the hospital, and it was caught on video tape and by witnesses. The car had been abandoned several blocks away in an alley. No plates. No driver. That's where I come in. I was the last registered owner according to the state of Louisiana. And had to spend my TIME and MONEY to get it straightened out. Since then I kept all paperwork whenever I traded in a car for a new one until I got rid of the vehicle. And I made sure that the information on my trade-in included the VIN and the dealership name on it. JD

Almost same thing happened to me, donated a car to Salvation Army, they sold it and it was never taken out of my name. New owner racked up hundreds of bucks in tickets. One morning the police knocked on my door to arrest me for outstanding tickets. Luckily I had a copy of my act of donation. A month latter the Salvation Army called me trying to get me to claim the car because it had been towed and impounded and the new purchaser could not get it because they never titled it. Told them to pack sand!

This is New Mexico's fault

Just goes to show how stupid cops are. They will tow your car at a traffic stop if something is wrong with registration. But do nothing if left abandoned.

That one guy just solved her "problem". He said, once someone takes ownership of a vehicle, it's their responsibility to register it. RELIABLE to8k ownership of it (from her). It's RELIABLE's problem now.

They are just hounding her because she has money and can pay fines, and they lost track of the new owner, imo. They know they can't get money out of the bum who didn't register it.

Police, "it's out of our hands".......well, then.....do the right thing POLICE!

Shows the intelligence level of Albuquerque's LEOSs and the government out there. NONE!

2:27 that is some high quality editing. Straight out of Hollywood

I love it, the system says she owns it so nothing we can do, fuck there isn't. You could use your brain and stop ticketing the person who clearly has proof she sold the car to a dealership, Dealership has proof they took it to an auction house. Clearly you drop all tickets on the car, impound it, and sell it for scrap. State pockets the money. Problem solved. For fucks sake are people in our government really this god damn stupid?

How did the dealership give this car to another entity to be sold at auction without having a clear title? I would think the car had to be registered to the dealership before it could then be sold at auction. Seems like a couple steps were skipped.