$5 million suit filed over 1/2 tank of gas
A woman is suing a Detroit financial services company for more than $5 million for keeping a half tank of gas from her car when it was repossessed.Victoria Jean Church-Dellinger of White Lake, Mich., filed the class-action suit Friday in federal court against Ally Financial Inc. for keeping the gas in her 2008 Pontiac G6 when it was repossessed, The Detroit News reported.
"It's the same as if you left your jacket in there and they didn't return it to you," said Brian Parker, her attorney. "You can't take someone's coat or fuzzy dice, and you have to return the gas."
Church-Dellinger, 43, said in the suit the amount she's seeking is three times the fair-market value of all gas taken from Michigan residents by Ally in the past six years.
She also seeks to force the auto lender, which is majority-owned by the U.S. government, to return all gas seized during that time or pay fair-market value for it and to give owners whose vehicles are repossessed credit for gas left in the tank.
St. Paul woman allegedly injures man trying to repossess her car
A St. Paul woman whose car was about to be repossessed ran into the tow truck's driver, a criminal complaint said.
A witness called police Feb. 17 to report a man on the hood of a vehicle. At Rice Street and Larpenteur Avenue in Maplewood, they found Anthony Dean Miller, who said he repossesses vehicles for Undercover Auto Recovery, according to the complaint filed Thursday in Ramsey County District Court.
Diana Rae Buckles, 39, also known by the last name Anderson, was charged with third-degree assault and terroristic threats.
According to the complaint, Miller located a 1997 Oldsmobile Achieva on his repossession list in the parking lot of the Dollar Store at 1700 Rice St. in Maplewood. He parked behind the Achieva and lowered the tow truck's lift.
Just then, a blond woman in her 30s ran toward the car and jumped into the driver's seat. Miller told the woman he was repossessing it when she "suddenly hit the gas and ran into his knee, which forced him to fall onto the
