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Oops, wrong Olds
By Dave Forster, The Forum
Published Friday, August 26, 2005
Memo to all repo men: Make sure you’re going after the right vehicle.
Kailee Sparks, a 20-year-old from Fargo, said she became the victim last month of two misguided repo men.
Floyd Solomon Marshall, the driver who tailed Sparks’ 1994 Oldsmobile Bravada on July 19, was charged with felony reckless endangerment for the incident. He is scheduled to make his first Cass County District Court hearing today.
“I’m kind of the laughingstock around town because of this,” Marshall said Thursday. “You better believe it’s embarrassing.”
Sparks was westbound on Fargo’s Main Avenue, headed to an appointment, when a Cadillac came up close behind her about 11 a.m. The car, horn blaring, pulled alongside, the two men inside yelling at her to pull over, she told police.
Sparks was on her cell phone with her mom, wondering what to do. She thought the men were crazy. She turned left onto 17th Street East in West Fargo.
The Cadillac followed.
“By this time, I was freaked out (and) crying, not knowing what to do,” she told police.
That’s when the Cadillac pulled in front of Sparks and stopped, causing Sparks to rear-end it, according to a police report.
The men stepped out and told her they were repossessing the vehicle. Sparks tried to tell them her boyfriend just bought the car and was waiting for the plates.
“They didn’t listen to me,” she wrote in a police statement. “The passenger (of the Cadillac) took my keys and got into the car.”
Marshall, 65, of Moorhead, said he was only the driver of the Cadillac and never yelled at Sparks to leave her car. He said he was told to repossess the vehicle for Wild Bill’s Auto Sales in West Fargo.
Jodi L. Peterson, who runs Wild Bill’s, said that wasn’t the case.
“Floyd was not authorized to do any of that,” she said.
Marshall had worked for Wild Bill’s in the past, but he wasn’t employed there at the time, she said.
Peterson’s son, 21-year-old Alan Michael Peterson of Fargo, was the second man in the Cadillac – the one accused of driving away Sparks’ Bravada. He’s been charged with unlawful entry of a motor vehicle, a felony, but has yet to appear in court.
Marshall said he’d apologize to Sparks.
“I don’t understand how she was so terrified,” he said.
Jodi Peterson said she offered to pay for the damage to Sparks’ boyfriend’s vehicle and get the couple a night at a hotel. They haven’t responded.
“They were pretty angry,” Peterson said. “And I guess I don’t blame them one bit.”
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God help the troglodyte that would choose to go after my paid-for truck...especially if I'm in it at the time.
TM
Oops, wrong Olds
By Dave Forster, The Forum
Published Friday, August 26, 2005
Memo to all repo men: Make sure you’re going after the right vehicle.
Kailee Sparks, a 20-year-old from Fargo, said she became the victim last month of two misguided repo men.
Floyd Solomon Marshall, the driver who tailed Sparks’ 1994 Oldsmobile Bravada on July 19, was charged with felony reckless endangerment for the incident. He is scheduled to make his first Cass County District Court hearing today.
“I’m kind of the laughingstock around town because of this,” Marshall said Thursday. “You better believe it’s embarrassing.”
Sparks was westbound on Fargo’s Main Avenue, headed to an appointment, when a Cadillac came up close behind her about 11 a.m. The car, horn blaring, pulled alongside, the two men inside yelling at her to pull over, she told police.
Sparks was on her cell phone with her mom, wondering what to do. She thought the men were crazy. She turned left onto 17th Street East in West Fargo.
The Cadillac followed.
“By this time, I was freaked out (and) crying, not knowing what to do,” she told police.
That’s when the Cadillac pulled in front of Sparks and stopped, causing Sparks to rear-end it, according to a police report.
The men stepped out and told her they were repossessing the vehicle. Sparks tried to tell them her boyfriend just bought the car and was waiting for the plates.
“They didn’t listen to me,” she wrote in a police statement. “The passenger (of the Cadillac) took my keys and got into the car.”
Marshall, 65, of Moorhead, said he was only the driver of the Cadillac and never yelled at Sparks to leave her car. He said he was told to repossess the vehicle for Wild Bill’s Auto Sales in West Fargo.
Jodi L. Peterson, who runs Wild Bill’s, said that wasn’t the case.
“Floyd was not authorized to do any of that,” she said.
Marshall had worked for Wild Bill’s in the past, but he wasn’t employed there at the time, she said.
Peterson’s son, 21-year-old Alan Michael Peterson of Fargo, was the second man in the Cadillac – the one accused of driving away Sparks’ Bravada. He’s been charged with unlawful entry of a motor vehicle, a felony, but has yet to appear in court.
Marshall said he’d apologize to Sparks.
“I don’t understand how she was so terrified,” he said.
Jodi Peterson said she offered to pay for the damage to Sparks’ boyfriend’s vehicle and get the couple a night at a hotel. They haven’t responded.
“They were pretty angry,” Peterson said. “And I guess I don’t blame them one bit.”
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God help the troglodyte that would choose to go after my paid-for truck...especially if I'm in it at the time.
TM
