Crime & Law Enforcement Issues & Death Penalty/Vehicle Theft/Conversion

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Expert: - 7/17/2007


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A person with a long history as a police informant took my vehicle registration/title along with the vehicle and traded it in to a local dealership. DMV Investigations states they cannot take further action because of lack of evidence that a crime occurred. THATS CRAZY! Would his past history with being an informant have anything to do with this? It coulde not be any more obvious that the signatures are not the same, especially since I submitted a notorized copy of mine.
This guy is a real piece of work, has a rap sheet a mile long but never seems to get what he is due. I know if it was me in his place I would STILL be sitting in jail. So with that said, is there any truth to the 'informant' getting away with "incidents" others wouldnt? Maybe in a much more general sense, are informants provided special privileges that could possibly have a trickle down affect, say to the DMV?

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 I have never in my life heard of DMV (MVA) being aware that any person was an informant or even if they did making one ounce of difference in how the treat a case.  But that is just my experience and doesn't necessarily apply to the entire country or every MVA and every police informant.

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