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 automotive would have been too harmful to be on the street.
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 automotive off on Oct. 29 and paid him $300 money.
Joshawa Vergason (MDOC)
Rochester shared her textual content messages with 6 Information.
“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 automotive and my cash and I do not know what else to do.
The 6 Information Investigates Workforce stopped on the welding store on Bunker Freeway this night. Vergason pulled in simply because the staff was organising.
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We requested him about Rochester’s automotive. “All you will do is make me extra well-known. I’m doing her a favor and she or he’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 then, together with from 6 Information.
Eaton Rapids suspect caught after 3-week chase
Eaton County District Court docket data present he’s at present dealing with costs of home violence and driving with a suspended license and is due in court docket in late January.
Whereas the muffler on his outdated Lincoln drowned out our recording, he mentioned he would full the work.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 grievance with the Michigan State Police who inform her Vergason didn’t reply their telephone calls Wednesday night time and are actually reviewing the scenario for a attainable felony cost.
However Rochester says the felony investigation is secondary. “I want my car back and I want my money back. I want the key to my car back,” she says.
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