Criminal charges for Granada man who failed to return rental car
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 @ 12:43 PM
A MAN who did not return his hired car has been sentenced to two years in prison.
Police caught the offender when stopping him for a driving offence and found that he was long overdue for returning the vehicle to the unnamed company.
He had been due to return it five months previously, and had cost the firm at least 2,400 euros through having a car missing by the time he was caught in Granada.
The accused said he had been unaware of the fact that the car-rental firm in the south-eastern city had reported him to the police for theft and that, as he did not have the money to pay them in full – which he would be required to do upon returning the vehicle – he had agreed with them that he would settle the bill a month later.
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