CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — Months after a raid on a Clayton County auto dealership, customers are learning they could be victims even if their odometers were not rolled back.
Channel 2 consumer investigator Jim Strickland spent Thursday getting answers for one of those car buyers.
"When you find out on the news that his place is raided, what do you say to yourself?" Strickland asked JD's Auto Sales customer Janice David. "Oh my God, I was like, oh my God. What am I do to?" she replied.
David is a repeat customer of auto dealer John Egbe.
Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne was there the moment fraud investigators raided Egbe's business in Forest Park.
A second enforcement action took place at his Decatur dealership. Egbe is facing charges of false swearing and title fraud.
During the raid, Egbe denied any wrongdoing.
David bought her 2005 Saturn minivan two months before the raids and put $2,600 down.
After getting two temporary tag extensions, David says she's been unable to register the van. It's been parked since before Christmas, and it's not even part of the odometer case.
"I can't afford that. It's like giving money away. And I have not been able to resolve the problem," she told Strickland.
The car lot is not under receivership. Receiver Boniface Echols, an attorney from Conyers, told Strickland there's no record of David's van, probably because it was sold so long before the raid.
He gave Strickland instructions for David, and said he'd work with the state to get it straightened out.
The receiver says Janice David is not the first to call with tag and title issues in the backwash of the odometer investigation.
"How do you think this is all going to work out?" Strickland asked.
"I don't know. I'm praying," said David.
A Department of Revenue spokesman says its investigation is almost complete. The case then goes to the district attorney to seek indictments.
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