JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Vince Serrano, the owner of ASAP Towing, pled not guilty to grand theft and organized fraud on Monday.
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Detectives with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said Serrano defrauded the state out of nearly $200,000 by faking records of the towed cars he sold.
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JSO’s arrest report said it all began when investigators found discrepancies in at least three Sales reports from December 2023. The investigation took off, and detectives went through 255 sales reports from 2020-2024 and found all but three of them had some indication of fraud.
In Nov. 2024, Serrano turned himself in.
A pretrial hearing is scheduled for Mar. 19.
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