Car salesmen milk $100,000 from mentally ill man
Here’s a descpicable example of individuals taking advantage of those less mentally stable than others. A respected automobile sales company in the Pacific Northwest finds itself in the unfortunate limelight of negative attention after employees took advantage of a mentally unstable customer.
On a Saturday morning last July, salesmen at Huling Brothers Auto Center in West Seattle allegedly hatched a plot to steal $100,000 from a mentally ill customer, according to a detailed police affidavit released Friday.
The day before, prosecutors allege, the salesmen sold a fully loaded truck to the customer, who’d come in wearing feces-stained pants and boasting of having a dresser drawer full of cash.
Over the next week, police said, six salesmen rifled through the man’s apartment, hunting for $70,000 the man kept in a plastic sack in his dresser. After being beaten to the cash by co-workers, one salesman managed to steal the man’s new $30,000 truck by getting him to sign over ownership while the man was in Harborview Medical Center’s psychiatric ward, according to charging papers.
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