Repo man gets more than he bargained for in Warren

WARREN — Things didn’t go quite the way you see on television for a repo man from Bath, Ohio, who came to Warren to take possession of a car Wednesday.

Instead of having a verbal confrontation with the repossessed car owner and leaving the scene with the vehicle anyway, he had to run for his life when the angry owner poked a gun in his face and took off with the repo man’s tow truck, which had the owner’s car attached.

Michael Pasqualetti drove around Warren and eventually located the white 2002 Buick LeSabre in a driveway on Oak Knoll Avenue Southeast. He called for another repo man from Deerfield to assist him.

At about 8:30 p.m., Pasqualetti hooked up the Buick from the rear and pulled it into a parking lot across Niles Road a short distance away from the residence to hook the car up to the tow truck a different way.

The car owner then came out of the Oak Knoll home, ran toward them and shouted to the repo men to give him back his car.

Pasqualetti noticed that the man had his hand in his sweatshirt pocket. Then he saw him pull a pistol out and point it at him.

Pasqualetti “took off running as [he] kept yelling at the gunman not to shoot,” a Warren police report said.

The gunman jumped into the tow truck and drove away with it — the Buick still in tow.

For the complete story, see Friday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com