Rent a car from Hertz and get a free arrest warrant

What do you get when you cross the police state with corporate incompetence? A nationwide rental car company mass reporting false theft reports because they lose records of their cars, resulting in innocent people being arrested for car theft.

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HUNDREDS of people are suing Hertz over alleged false arrests in regards to rental cars. In recent court documents, Hertz reportedly acknowledged that it files 3,365 police reports about stolen cars involving its customers on average every year. ... A total of 230 customers are now suing Hertz for false arrest – with some claiming false prosecution. One of them is a grandmother who goes by Paula Murray, who was arrested in January 2021 for allegedly stealing a car. However, she did in fact return the car five years before her arrest and had her charges dismissed on March 30, according to USA Today. It added that false theft cases regarding Hertz’s rental units have been known to occur, but that the exact number of innocent customers is unclear. The court documents show the group suing Hertz has spent a cumulative 2,742 days behind bars.

One example includes a man who ended up being convicted of car theft, despite having a valid contract from Hertz:

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Moreover, there was another case where Larry Wilcoxson had to end his campaign to serve as a state representative for Florida The man, who was in his mid-30s at the time, had police officers show up at his door in regards to an alleged stolen car in his driveway that he rented from Hertz. Despite him having a rental agreement and bank statement regarding the rental charges, he was sentenced to two years of probation just a few weeks ahead of his election results. This was because Hertz claimed in the trial it had no record of Larry's rental “I had to kill all my dreams of being a state representative,” he said. To make matters worse, he got arrested for a probation violation that sent him to jail for 180 days. ... The suits claim that Hertz has a “pattern of missing inventory” and immediately files police reports rather than conducting an internal investigation to ensure records are correct.

https://www.the-sun.com/motors/48175...t-rental-cars/

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