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- Quite often, we find these Rhode Island temp reges.
The paper ones are-- are just printed up and made
fraudulently.
How are we doing?
Officer Steere, Warwick Police Department.
I'm just checking on your registration.
OK, yeah, it looks-- it's--
I don't know if it's the-- the plate cover.
But it looks really worn.
How long have you had it?
A couple of weeks?
Is that the temp tag they gave you?
Oh, when you bought the car he gave it to you?
All right.
All right, thank you.
Where'd you buy it?
Did you buy it in Mass?
Oh, you bought it in Rhode Island?
OK.
Where's-- where's-- where is he, out of Providence?
- Yeah.
- All right.
So when you went down and got the car,
does he have like a car lot, an office,
or is it kind of like he met you somewhere?
- He has-- it's off--
- All right.
Yeah.
All right, did you find it odd that the guy is running a, uh,
a car sales lot out of his mom's house?
OK.
All right.
The plate has a different name than this gentleman is using.
And the bill of sale she has is out of New York.
So nothing here is adding up.
It doesn't look like it's stolen at this point.
But it certainly isn't legitimately registered
or anything through the state.
- Should I be driving this with that plate?
- Do you have insurance?
- No. - No?
- We did it on--
on-- on a computer.
- So he's-- he's claiming that you should have insurance
for this too?
- I gave him the money.
- Yeah.
- And he did online, like, he was doing my insurance.
And that's why there's insurance number and stuff on there.
Don't look at me like that.
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So do you see where I'm coming from?
Typically what we'll see is somebody
like yourself would buy a car from a guy that
goes to auctions.
And he'll just throw--
he found this plate on the ground last week.
And he'll say, hey, here's the car.
And I'll give you a plate with it.
You know what I mean?
And he'll do it that way.
But these are very easily forged.
- We were-- let me say what I thought he was doing.
- So, now, see, this says Narragansett Auto Sales.
That's not the name of his company.
So--
- Let me tell you why I thought he was legit because who does
something legit and bring it to their mother's house, right?
- Legit or not legit?
- Well, if you bring somebody to your mother's house,
you think they ain't doing nothing funny.
- Well, you'd be surprised.
Not everybody's is as honest as you and I are.
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- Probably the easiest way to get this rectified is
to go down to the registry and just get it registered
because if you're on the roadway,
you'd probably be towed, all right?
And then--
- And if I get into accident, I ain't got no real insurance.
- Right.
- No [bleep].
- It's all right. - Thank you.
- All right, good luck.
- Thank you very much.
- All right.
From speaking to her, I believe she's
being honest that she was--
you know, wasn't totally aware of maybe
all the formalities involved in this and the legitimate--
as far as being legitimate.
So we're going to cut her a break on it.
Hopefully, she'll get everything taken care of.
And she won't run into any issues in the future.