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DC woman shocked to discover brutal car thieves have collected at least TEN traffic fines after stealing her vehicle – and the district still wants her to pay!
- Washington DC woman says city refuses to drop all 10 unresolved parking fines worth more than $1,750 after vehicle was stolen
- Catherine Brenner also faces more than $7,000 in damages caused by the vandal and the local DMV refuses to relieve her financial stress
- In June, Brenner’s Honda Civic was stolen from the parking lot at her apartment building
- The thief then got tickets from red light cameras, speed cameras and one of a parking violation
- However, three months after the dispute, the DC DMV had debited only one from its account
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A woman in Washington DC says the city is refusing to drop all 10 unresolved parking tickets worth more than $1,750 after the vehicle was stolen.
Catherine Brenner also faces more than $7,000 in damages caused by the vandal, and the local DMV refuses to relieve her financial stress.
In June, Brenner’s Honda Civic was stolen from the parking lot near her apartment building and said, ‘I walked back behind my building and I looked and my car wasn’t there.’
The thief was then given tickets from red light cameras, speed cameras and one of a parking violation.
As Brenner rightly points out when looking at the evidence, “I’m not the driver in any of these photos.”
Catherine Brenner also faces more than $7,000 in damages caused by the vandal and the local DMV refuses to relieve her financial stress
Brenner’s HOA president sent her security camera footage showing the break-in, when a man lit her car and drove off in the space of three minutes, which she called “knife to the heart.”
Brenner’s HOA president sent her CCTV footage showing the break-in, when a man lit her car and drove off in a span of three minutes, which she called “a knife to the heart.”
She filed a report with the local police and asked the RDW for ticketing warnings, the first of which she received nine days later.
Brenner said, “I went to that block myself to see if my car might still be there. Unfortunately it wasn’t. But then I found it within 48 hours of that ticket.’
When she found it, there were clothing, cigarette burns and a bullet casing inside the Honda Civic, with damages totaling more than $7,000.
Then the cards started to pile up. She said, “Once I got that first ticket, five more tickets came in via email later that day.”
Brenner got a total of 10 tickets in the 10-day period after she got the first one, with fines of $1,750
She filed a report with the local police and asked the RDW for ticketing warnings, the first of which she received nine days later.
Four more, a total of 10, came in in the 10-day period after she got the first one, with fines of $1,750.
Brenner said, “The detective I worked with specifically said I could contest any tickets, and they would all be removed from my account, so I wouldn’t have to worry about it.”
However, three months after the dispute, the DC DMV had debited only one from its account.
WUSA contacted the DC DMV. A spokesperson asked for information from Brenner, but gave no explanation.
However, within the next 24 hours, they dropped four of the tickets, although five are still open.
Brenner said, “I feel like this is like haunting and hanging around me all the time. And I just really want it to go away.”
In fact, unlike many major cities, violent crime in Washington fell by five percent by 2022, while all crime fell by four percent, according to the New York Times. city statistics.