A MERCEDES owner said their street-side parked car was towed away and scrapped while she was at work. The driver claimed her roadworthy luxury SUV was snatched from the street and sold to a salvage yard. "It was crushed, I can't recover it back," the driver, Acheal Holmes, said to Kansas City-based Fox affiliate WDAF in February 2024.
"Why would you take something from me that's not yours?" Holmes drove a 2000 Mercedes-Benz M-Class. The SUV was parked on the street in front of her house when she left for work. Read More on Car Tows When she got home, the SUV was gone.
She later found out the vehicle had been fully broken down to rubble a few miles from her home in the hours during her shift. Holmes didn't specify who she thought took the vehicle from the street. However, she was able to track it down to Midwest Scrap Management, a company that buys vehicles to scrap parts.
The scrap company consistently checks vehicle VINs for liens and stolen car reports. Most read in Motors But because the car was quickly brought to the scrap yard, Holmes couldn't submit records to police in time. The company also said it wasn't able to verify the car's records because it was over two decades old.
At the time, Midwest Scrap Management claimed Holmes accepted a $2,500 cash offer from a third party. Holmes denied the allegations. The company did not immediately respond to The U.
S. Sun's request for comment on this story. Another driver in the area, Pattie Stacy, claimed her car was also taken.