ROSWELL, Ga.,None — A Roswell man told police that a man posing as a repo man stole his car.
Alfred Abdelmaseh said the man showed up at his home one night last week wearing a badge, and demanding the keys to his Chrysler 300.
He said if I didnt give up the car, he was gonna have a warrant put up for my arrest, that I was in possession of a vehicle that wasnt legally mine, he told Channel 2s Mike Petchenik.
Abdelmaseh told Petchenik that he was scared for his familys safety, so he complied.
I was protecting my family, he said. Materialistic things can come and go. My family was the No. 1 thing.
Abdelmaseh told Petchenik that the man gave him no paperwork to sign over the car, and that he left with it attached to an unmarked tow truck. The next day, he said he called his lender to see what was going on with the car.
The car, was in fact, not in repossession, he said.
Abdelmaseh filed a report with Roswell police, who are now treating the case as an auto theft.
Please dont make the same mistake I did, he said. Call the cops. I didnt do that because I was worried and wasnt thinking properly.
WSBTV
