Car dealer charged with failing to provide titles

Published: Monday, Feb. 11 2013 6:55 p.m. MST

Summary

A car dealer is accused of selling cars but failing to provide the vehicles' titles.

SOUTH SALT LAKE — A car dealer is accused of selling cars but failing to provide the vehicles' titles.

Michael Toscano, 42, of South Jordan, is charged with four counts of failure by a dealer to deliver a title of origin, a class A misdemeanor, according to charges filed Monday in 3rd District Court.

Four individuals who purchased cars in November from Mike's Motors, 3830 S. Main, paying between $7,000 and $24,000, had not received the title and registration for the vehicles by mid-January.

One car buyer told police Toscano had instructed her she would have to file a complaint against his business because it was closing, charges state.

— McKenzie Romero

Twitter: McKenzieRomero

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NedGrimley

Brigham City, UT

Peter: disgusting isn't it? But try getting the legislature to consider toughening the laws on sleazy car dealers...hahahaha. Too much money there...

7:42 p.m. Feb. 11, 2013
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John Charity Spring

Back Home in Davis County, UT

Ned is correct. Even a cursory review of the Utah code reveals that there are a great many crimes that have been classified as misdemeanors or felonies in seemingly arbitrary ways. Sadly, in many cases such as this, it is not arbitrary, it is the More..

7:56 p.m. Feb. 11, 2013
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Peter Coyotl

West Jordan, UT

One can cheat someone out of $24,000 in Utah and it is only a misdemeanor?

6:58 p.m. Feb. 11, 2013
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