"She had an uneventful trip - until she was pulled over in Ohio by county sheriffs' deputies who, according to bodycam video obtained by the I-Team, identified the rental car license plate as stolen, and proceeded to draw their guns on the side of the highway. "Driver! Shut the car off and step out!!" one shouted, raising his service weapon."
"About eight months before the rental car was pulled over, someone removed it from a national database of stolen vehicles, according to records from both the NYPD and the Geauga County Sheriff's Office in Ohio. But the two law enforcement agencies had differing accounts of whether the license plate had also been cleared. It turns out tense traffic stops, resulting from mistaken reports of rental car theft, are more common than one might think."
""To me, that seemed unbelievable. A whole process needs to change so they do not have police pulling people over for no reason," said the driver, who asked for her name to be withheld because she used a corporate discount to rent the car and wished to keep her company out of the story."
A Manhattan Avis customer was pulled over in Ohio after deputies' systems flagged the rental plate as stolen; deputies drew their guns while ordering the driver out of the vehicle. Bodycam video captured the frightened driver's compliance and later determination by police that the car had not been stolen. Records show the vehicle had been removed from a national stolen-vehicle database months earlier, while local agencies disagreed about whether the license plate had been cleared. Reviews of hundreds of lawsuits show customers have been humiliated, handcuffed, and even arrested at gunpoint after rental companies reported their own vehicles as stolen.
Read at NBC New York
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