- Report: #420420
Complaint Review: SWAT Towing - Auto Citi Towing - Chandler Arizona
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SWAT Towing - Auto Citi Towing
1731 N Arizona Ave. Chandler, 85225 Arizona, U.S.A.
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480-644-8181
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SWAT Towing - Auto Citi Towing How to NOT pay and get your car back immediately... Legally! Chandler Arizona
Yep, they took my car. Nope, I did not and will not pay. I was in the store whose lot I was parked in at the time of the tow. I came out and talked with the Police. They gave me the following information in a very long in personal conversation. They also asked me to write complaints to every City official I could to get these scammers to stop making the PD deal with the aggrivation they cause.
SWAT Towing, DBA Auto Citi Towing: Tom O'Brien, Troy Myers, Pete Colantoni, proprieters. This is a notorious towing company who pay commercial land owners to sign contracts to tow from their properties. There are many parking lots all over the valley patrolled by their meth addicted drivers, looking to find suckers who inadvertently parked in a lot by assuming no one would mind. The truth is that it is rare that someone does mind; it is an opportunity to unethically make money.
This company had lots of problems when they started towing in Tempe because they were not meeting their legal responsibilities. (read: breaking the law.) They responded by joining the Tempe Chamber of Commerce and greasing palms. (Who got new cars?) Soon enough, they singlehandedly had the City change the very laws they were breaking in their favor: (Tempe City Code 32.)
If they tow YOU and a police department did not order the tow: Shockingly, thanks to that same law it is still illegal for them to extort money from you by witholding your car. They HAVE to give you your car when you come to claim it, even with no payment. You will have to get a ride to their Chandler office and then to the offsite holding lot to do so, since they have your car.
You WILL need to sign a letter in accordance with the law they changed. On this letter above your signature, handwrite: "My signature does not imply acceptance of liability or debt. This is not a promise to pay." Plan to NOT sign for a subpoena in the mail from them within a few months...
(Check Tempe City Code 32 for updates)
Not going to take it any more!
Tempe, Arizona
U.S.A.
SWAT Towing, DBA Auto Citi Towing: Tom O'Brien, Troy Myers, Pete Colantoni, proprieters. This is a notorious towing company who pay commercial land owners to sign contracts to tow from their properties. There are many parking lots all over the valley patrolled by their meth addicted drivers, looking to find suckers who inadvertently parked in a lot by assuming no one would mind. The truth is that it is rare that someone does mind; it is an opportunity to unethically make money.
This company had lots of problems when they started towing in Tempe because they were not meeting their legal responsibilities. (read: breaking the law.) They responded by joining the Tempe Chamber of Commerce and greasing palms. (Who got new cars?) Soon enough, they singlehandedly had the City change the very laws they were breaking in their favor: (Tempe City Code 32.)
If they tow YOU and a police department did not order the tow: Shockingly, thanks to that same law it is still illegal for them to extort money from you by witholding your car. They HAVE to give you your car when you come to claim it, even with no payment. You will have to get a ride to their Chandler office and then to the offsite holding lot to do so, since they have your car.
You WILL need to sign a letter in accordance with the law they changed. On this letter above your signature, handwrite: "My signature does not imply acceptance of liability or debt. This is not a promise to pay." Plan to NOT sign for a subpoena in the mail from them within a few months...
(Check Tempe City Code 32 for updates)
Not going to take it any more!
Tempe, Arizona
U.S.A.
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Not going to take it any more!
Tempe,Arizona,
U.S.A.
Forgot to mention...
#2Author of original report
Sun, February 15, 2009
You need to bring proof of ownership and ID when you pick up the car. Per Tempe City code 32: Proof of ownership or agency shall be deemed proven when the claimant displays an actual or photocopy of a vehicle registration or title, whether current or not, for the impounded vehicle and one of the following is provided: (1) The claimant of the vehicle displays a driver's license or any government piece of photographic identification, whether current or not, issued by any state or other sovereign empowered to issue such a license or identification, such license indicating the same last name as that in which the vehicle is registered; or (2) The claimant displays any piece of photographic identification and written authorization from the owner, which includes a copy of any government piece of photographic identification of the owner and the keys to the impounded vehicle. http://www.tempe.gov/citycode/32towing.htm
Charles
Lake Havabrew,Arizona,
U.S.A.
What do you expect from people who elect Joe Arpio
#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Thu, February 05, 2009
In Los Angeles, we used to have scammer tow companies like this, but LAPD went undercover and parked cars in parking lots and when the tow truck took the car - BOOM - the drivers got arrested for Grand Theft Auto. That pretty much ran the crooks pit of the tow business. Maybe if you didnt have a 3rd rate police department, SWAT Towing wouldnt be around anymore.
