State Police have investigated two cases involving auto dealerships over the last several months.
\nThe investigations have led to arrests in both cases according to trooper Kenneth P. Hofer, Jr. The officer works in the auto fraud division at the Hollidaysburg-based barracks.
\nIn one of the cases, a 43-year-old Bellefonte man, William Merle Reeder, went to Dan Parson\u2019s Used Cars in Snyder Township with a 1988 Cadillac Deville on November 2 of last year.
\nState police said Reeder then sold the car to the dealership for $900. It was later discovered the car had been stolen from a private owner in Clearfield County.
\nTrooper Hofer explained that Reeder allegedly made a deal with the private owner for a car that was advertised for sale outside the owner\u2019s property. Hofer said Reeder got the owner of the car to give him the vehicle and the title with the promise he would return with the funds to purchase it based on insurance money he claimed he was due to receive shortly. Hofer said there was no insurance check and Reeder never returned to the owner to pay for the vehicle.
\nHofer said that Dan Parson\u2019s Used Cars had previously been given a summons for failure to verify a title of a vehicle it was purchasing. Reeder was charged with receiving stolen property at Magisterial District Judge Fred Miller\u2019s office.
\nTrooper Hofer also investigated another auto dealership case which dates back to last summer.
\nAccording to a state police press release, sometime between 6:15 p.m. on July 1 and 7:30 a.m. on July 2, two Altoona men went to Tim\u2019s Auto Sales & Service in Antis Township.
\nUpon arriving at the location, one of the men, 20-year-old Robert James Myers, broke out a glass window at the rear of the dealership on East Pleasant Valley Boulevard.
\nMyers was allegedly able to gain entrance into the garage area. Once inside, he located 28 certificates of emissions and a black Brinks security box which contained cash and change. Myers removed the items and both he and another man, 35-year-old Richard Brian Detwiler, fled the scene unnoticed.
\nAs a result of the investigation into the incident, Detwiler was charged with criminal conspiracy to commit burglary, theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property.
\nMyers was charged with burglary, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief.
\nCharges against the men were filed at Magisterial Judge Miller\u2019s office in Snyder Township.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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