ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Pennsylvania’s Attorney General says a pair of Allentown businesses were involved in a massive auto title fraud scheme involving stolen vehicles.<\/p>\n
J&J Car and Truck Sales on South 4th Street and MP Notary and Tags on Hamilton Street are among 21 businesses in Lehigh, Philadelphia and Lebanon counties being charged.<\/p>\n
In addition, five Allentown residents are among 30 people being charged individually:\u00a0Indalecia Vazquez, Beaki Perez, Maria Pineda, Somary Ibeth Otanez-DeLoor, and Jefferson Loor-Valet.<\/p>\n
Attorney General Josh Shapiro says the suspects are alleged to have purchased totaled vehicles that they then falsified inspection information for and submitted fraudulent title applications to PennDOT.<\/p>\n
They’re also accused of changing the VIN numbers so authorities would not be able to detect the stolen vehicles as they were resold or exported.<\/p>\n
Shapiro says the suspects allowed hundreds of damaged, potentially dangerous vehicles back onto the roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Pennsylvania’s Attorney General says a pair of Allentown businesses were involved in a massive auto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,33,28],"class_list":["post-177201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}