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    Default Might Be Accused of Vehicle Theft

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: North Carolina

    I will try to keep this short, My employer (an automotive service provider) has had a car stored inside its facility for over 2 1/2 years (about the length of time I have worked there). I expressed interest in renting this vehicle for a day for personal use and was told by my boss that he had spoken with the owner of the car and they had agreed to let me use it. I was told that because the owner of the car had not paid any storage fees to keep the car in our shop (owner of car is a close friend of the owner of shop) I could use the vehicle for no charge. I took my shop owners word for this and took the car. The vehicle was damaged while I was using it and estimates are around $3500 for repairs. The market value for the car itself according to kelly blue book is only $1200 but the car has a large number of modifications that puts the true market value around $5500. Now the owner of the car has found out about the damages and is threatening to charge me with theft of the vehicle and a monetary lawsuit unless I pay $16,000 (a value that he has come up with to build the vehicle from scratch again.) because he claims he was never contacted about me using the car. I am afraid of being charged with theft after I was told by the person responsible for the car that I could use it, and am worried about having to pay roughly 3 times the fair value of the car just because of the situation. I have offered to repair the damages and return the car to its previous condition and I have offered to purchase the car at a slightly higher than fair value but neither option was accepted and he is demanding the $16,000

    Thanks for any advice.

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    Default Re: Might Be Accused of Vehicle Theft

    Was the vehicle uninsured at the time of the accident? Was it registerd?

    The accident occurred how long ago? The owner found out about the accident how long after it occurred?

    Your boss is now saying what?

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    Default Re: Might Be Accused of Vehicle Theft

    Mr. Knowitall, Thank you for the response.

    I believe the vehicle was uninsured as it is a race car and not registered or driven on the street, These damages were occurred on a racetrack. The owner of my shop was aware I planned to drive the car on the racetrack and I was told the owner of the car knew this as well.

    The accident occurred in October 2009. I was told by my boss that he contacted the owner and told them about the damages, The owner found out the truth about the damages last week on Thursday Feb 25th

    Now my boss is asking how much money I can come up with by the end of the week because he wants to offer them $8000 for the car, implying that I should be responsible to pay for however he decides to handle the situation and complaining about the legal fees that he is going to incur and maybe we should just pay them the $16000 because by the time everything is settled and we argue to pay the $8000, the legal fees would probably be another $8000 so fighting them might not be worth the trouble.

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