‘Stealing My Own Vehicle’: Finance Worker Says Cops Took His Jaguar, Then Hauled Him to Jail When He Showed Up at Auction to Get It Back

Nyree Hinton says he had a prescription for Adderall and a valid driver’s license when California cops arrested him for possession of a controlled substance without a prescription and for driving without a license earlier this year. But things went from bad to worse when the 30-year-old Black man said he discovered the Jaguar he had been driving the day of his arrest at an auction facility in Riverside County after a disputed repossession. “I called the cops, but (Riverside County deputies) threw me in jail again and charged me with stealing my own vehicle,” Hinton said in an interview with Atlanta Black Star. The former finance worker said he spent the night in a Riverside County jail before he was released, but the district attorney never filed charges in that case. “I never had a criminal history coming to California,” said Hinton, who grew up in New Jersey and moved to California in January 2022 for a job at Capital Group after working in finance in New York.

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