California car dealership mistake ends with innocent driver held by police gunpoint

A car dealership's clerical correction led California police to apprehension an guiltless man astatine gunpoint successful a terrifying mix-up. 

Driver Jamie Rodgers tin beryllium seen pinch his hands successful nan aerial connected broadside of nan road conscionable earlier a cadre of officers equipped pinch rifles and pistols attack him connected dash cam footage provided to Fox 11 by nan Orange County Sheriff's Department. 

The agency told nan outlet they had received reports that he had stolen nan conveyance from Car Pros Kia Huntington Beach and was considered "armed and dangerous," KTLA reported. 

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Jamie Rodgers was arrested astatine gunpoint successful June 2021 aft a car dealership mislaid paperwork and reported his loaner car stolen. (KTTV)

Rodgers said he was "terrified [he] was going to die" successful nan ordeal. 

"I've ne'er had battle rifles conscionable lined up, pointed astatine me," he told Fox 11. "My each move is fundamentally my last." 

"My each move is fundamentally my last." 

The dealership had loaned Rodgers nan conveyance while his was nether repair - but aft they mislaid way of nan paperwork, per Fox 11, they reported nan SUV arsenic stolen. 

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Rodgers raised his hands supra his caput aft he was pulled complete by Orange County Police successful nan loaner car. (KTTV)

The expanse of insubstantial had apparently fallen down a filing cabinet, nan Orange County Register reported. 

When nan dealership received a measure for unpaid tolls, they concluded that nan car must person been stolen. 

"I don't cognize what's going on," he recalled of nan apprehension connected nan 73 freeway successful June 2021. "My bosom is pounding. My palms are just, like, dripping sweat. I wanted to spot my family again - that's what's going done my mind." 

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Orange County Sheriff's Department officers are seen pinch rifles and handguns approaching Rodgers, who they believed was "armed and dangerous."  (KTTV)

After astir 10 minutes, deputies realized that nan car wasn't stolen, according to KTLA. By that point, Rodgers had been handcuffed. 

Rodgers said he has since revenge a suit against nan car dealership. 

"This shouldn't person happened. So it was reckless," Rodgers told Fox 11. "There was negligence. They are saying that they conscionable misplaced a expanse of insubstantial erstwhile they were moving files around." 

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Rodgers' lawyer told KTLA that his customer was forced to resign arsenic an diversion trainer astatine JSerra Catholic High School successful San Juan Capistrano owed to PTSD from nan incident. He has since shifted to a profession successful existent estate, lawyer Scott Harlan said: 

"He's had to reinvent himself," Harlan told KTLA. "The problem pinch these things is an unintentional assemblage activity tin lead to death." 

The Orange County Sheriff's Office, Car Pros Kia Huntington Beach and Rodger's lawyer could not instantly beryllium reached for remark astatine property time.