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BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. -- A man tried to sell a stolen car to its owner after listing the car on the Internet, according to Boynton Beach police.



A man tries to sell a stolen Chevelle to its owner after listing the car on the Internet, Boynton Beach police say.


On Monday evening, police charged William Paul Jones with grand theft auto, burglary and dealing in stolen property after the car's owner set up a meeting to buy the car.

Boynton Beach police said the incident began when a man considered a Craigslist ad listing the shell of the 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle suspicious. The man went to look at the car on Sunday and said the seller told him the car had been abandoned.

Instead of buying the car, the man drove to the supposed abandoned location on Fearnley Road in Lantana and looked up the property owner's name online. When the man called, Carlo Avolio told him that his 1970 two-door Chevelle, which had no engine or transmission, and a 1989 trailer had been stolen earlier that day.

Avolio then posed as a potential buyer and called the man selling the car, arranging to meet him at 64 Baytree Circle in Boynton Beach on Monday night to take a look. Avolio then called Boynton Beach police.





At about 8 p.m. on Monday, Avolio positively identified the car as his, and officers arrested Jones.

Police said Jones first told investigators that he thought the car was abandoned, but police said he subsequently confessed to cutting the lock to the property and using a Chevy Blazer to steal the Chevelle and trailer.

Police said Jones also admitted to taking car parts, including alternators, a power steering box, a dashboard and floor shifters. Jones also said that he broke into the abandoned house on Baytree Circle so that he could store the stolen property, police said.

This is a BIG problem in the muscle car market. Thieves will steal your classic car right off the trailer - or sometimes they take the trailer, too - and re-number it. It can be impossible to prove it's your car.

The other big problem is clones. Guys will take a Plymouth Satellite, which had the same body as the Roadrunner, and re-create a Hemi Roadrunner. They can get so good with the paperwork that you can't catch them unless you go to extraordinary lengths to investigate the car.

There's a guy in Mopar circles named Galen Govier who has meticulously catalogued almost every Mopar made in the '60's and '70's. If you're looking to buy a 'Cuda, Superbird or some such classic, you owe it to yourself to hire him to verify the car you're looking at.

RodeoSchro said:

Can't trust anything or anyone these days it seems.....