From South Carolina

Two men are arrested for impersonating a police officer. The victim says they ran him off the road to repossess his truck.

Run off the road and roughed up. A man says he was attacked by a repo man and a used car salesman pretending to be law enforcement officers. The men were arrested on Friday on Asheville Highway in Inman. Deputies say they went too far in trying to re-possess a truck.

The victim says he was headed up Asheville Highway on Friday afternoon with other cars all over the road when all of a sudden a tow truck bumped him from behind, and forced him off the road and in a parking lot. He says the man he had bought the truck from and the repo man proceeded to push him around. But he says this actually all started in his driveway.

Kevin Parker says he was sitting in his truck in his own driveway when all of a sudden he was rammed from behind. He says he looked up to see a tow truck hooked up to his vehicle. He says he was afraid so he put the truck in four-wheel drive and took off. He says the men followed him up Asheville Highway, forced him off the road and then started shoving him around. He says the repo man claimed to be a law enforcement officer and then a witness who saw what was going on called 911.

Deputies say the two men are Tony Cooper who works for a repo company and Justin Harness who is the manager of Credit Cars in Taylors, where Parker bought his truck. They were arrested and charged with impersonating an officer, reckless driving and assault and battery.

Tony Cooper works for a company called Professional Auto Recovery out of Greenville. The name may sound familiar to you because we did a story on them back in April after one of their tow trucks tried to tow away a vehicle with a woman still inside.


The Better Business Bureau says 11 people have filed complaints about the towing company, some alleging damage to vehicles or property, others believe they should not have been towed. Cooper adamantly tells us the complaints are "not correct".