Buyer Beware

Posted: Apr. 12, 2008 Under: Halton Region Permanent Link to this Article

Halton Regional Police Service

A joint investigation by the Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Council (the regulator of the car dealer industry in Ontario) and the Halton Regional Police Fraud Unit has resulted in the arrest of a Mississauga man for fraudulently selling written-off cars to unwary citizens.

OMVIC and police responded to a complaint in late 2007 of a man advertising a car on the internet, who then arranged to meet a prospective customer near an apartment building on Glen Erin Drive, in Mississauga. The man showed the car and indicated he had been the original owner. He provided a false Used Vehicle Information Package to the customer, which had been altered to conceal the car’s true history: it had been in a collision and written-off by the insurance company. The man had purchased the car from an auto-recycler.

Further investigation revealed that the man had done this at least 15 times in the last 9 months, to victims from many parts of Ontario, from North Bay to Petrolia. The cars had all been written-off and obtained from auto recyclers.

Charged is: Andre Campbell of Mississauga and Derby Lane of Sarnia.


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