{"id":278232,"date":"2026-09-03T16:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278232\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:28:12","slug":"pennsylvania-attorney-general-files-contempt-petition-against-philadelphia-towing-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278232\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Attorney General Files Contempt Petition Against Philadelphia Towing Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Sept. 3 that his office\u2019s Bureau of Consumer Protection has filed a contempt petition against a group of Philadelphia towing companies, alleging they breached a 2022 court order by continuing to tow vehicles from areas that were not clearly marked and to charge excessive fees. The petition seeks monetary relief totaling more than $220,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Seal_of_the_Attorney_General_of_Pennsylvania.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Seal_of_the_Attorney_General_of_Pennsylvania.png\" alt=\"Pennsylvania Attorney General\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\"  \/><\/a>The figure represents a sharp escalation over the original resolution. When the office <a href=\"https:\/\/collisionweek.com\/2022\/04\/25\/pennsylvania-attorney-general-announces-settlements-towing-companies-violations-consumer-protection-laws\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced the settlement in April 2022<\/a>, the defendants agreed to pay $9,000 in restitution and costs and were assessed a suspended civil penalty of $14,500. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Sept. 3 that his office\u2019s Bureau of Consumer Protection has filed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-278232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278232","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=278232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}