DC woman discovers brazen car thieves racked up at least TEN tickets after stealing her vehicle

A Washington, DC, woman says that the city is refusing to drop all 10 unresolved parking tickets worth over $1,750 after the vehicle was stolen. 

Catherine Brenner is also facing over $7,000 in damages done by the vandal and the local DMV refuses to alleviate her financial stress. 

In June, Brenner’s Honda Civic was stolen from its parking spot near her apartment building, saying ‘I walked back behind my building and I looked and my car wasn’t there.’

The thief went on to receive tickets from red light cameras, speed cameras, and one from a parking violation.

As Brenner rightly points out when viewing the evidence: ‘I am not the driver in any of these photos.’ 

Catherine Brenner is also facing over $7,000 in damages done by the vandal and the local DMV refuses to alleviate her financial stress

Brenner’s HOA president sent her security camera footage that showed the break-in, as a man hotwired her car and drove away in a span of three minutes, which she called ‘like a knife to the heart’

Brenner’s HOA president sent her security camera footage that showed the break-in, as a man hotwired her car and drove away in a span of three minutes, which she called ‘like a knife to the heart.’ 

She filed a report with local police and asked the DMV for alerts on ticketing, the first of which she received nine days later.  

Brenner said: ‘I went to that block myself to look to see if maybe my car was still there. Sadly, it wasn’t. But then I found it within 48 hours of that ticket.’

When she found it, there were clothes, cigarette burns, and a bullet casing inside the Honda Civic, with the damage totaling over $7,000.

That’s when the tickets began to pile up. She said: ‘Once I got that first ticket, five other tickets came through via email later that day.’

See also  St Louis high school gunman used AR-15 with over 600 ROUNDS of ammunition for attack that killed two

Brenner got a total of 10 tickets over the period of 10 days after she got the first one, with the fines amassing $1,750

She filed a report with local police and asked the DMV for alerts on ticketing, the first of which she received nine days later

Four more, creating a total of 10, came in over the period of 10 days after she got the first one, with the fines amassing $1,750.

Brenner said: ‘The detective I’ve been working with specifically said I could contest all the tickets, and they would all be removed from my account, so I wouldn’t have to worry about it.’

However, three months after contesting, the DC DMV had only taken one off of her account. 

WUSA contacted the DC DMV. A spokesperson asked for Brenner’s info but gave no explanation. 

Within the next 24 hours, however, they dropped four of the tickets, though five remain outstanding.  

Brenner said: ‘I feel like this is just like haunting and hanging about me this entire time. And I just really want it to go away.’

Unlike many big cities, violent crime is actually down five percent in Washington in 2022, with all crime down four percent, according to the city’s statistics.