EATON RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WLNS) — Amber Rochester was in want – her 2011 Equinox wanted a critical restore involving welding on the body and undercarriage. With out it, the automobile would have been too harmful to be on the highway.
On the recommendation of a good friend, she struck a cope with Joshawa Vergason –of Rick’s Moveable Welding in Eaton Rapids Township. She dropped the automobile off on Oct. 29 and paid him $300 money.
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“So, he still has my car. It’s — it’s been almost seven weeks and he won’t return any of my phone calls or my text messages,” Rochester tells 6 Information. “And now I am simply sitting right here. I am — I am out a automobile and my cash and I do not know what else to do.
Rochester shared her textual content messages with 6 Information.
The 6 Information Investigates Staff stopped on the welding store on Bunker Freeway this night. Vergason pulled in simply because the staff was establishing.
We requested him about Rochester’s automobile.
“All you’re going to do is make me extra well-known. I’m doing her a favor and he or she’s going to be completely happy and you are going to really feel like an fool,” Vergason mentioned.
Vergason was the topic of a 3-week manhunt by regulation enforcement in 2019 when he ran from them as they tried to arrest him on warrants. His flight from justice garnered media consideration on the time, together with from 6 Information.
Eaton Rapids suspect caught after 3-week chase
Eaton County District Courtroom information present he’s at the moment going through fees of home violence and driving with a suspended license and is due in courtroom in late January.
Whereas our recording was drowned out by the muffler on his previous Lincoln, he says he’ll full the work. When requested when the work could be accomplished, Vergason instructed 6 Information it was none of our enterprise.
Rochester has filed a criticism with the Michigan State Police who inform her vergason didn’t reply their cellphone calls tonight and they’re now reviewing the state of affairs for a doable legal cost.
however Rochester says the legal investigation is secondary.
“I want my car back and I want my money back. I want the key to my car back,” she says.
