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Used Car Dealer Indicted for Selling Vehicles With Liens

AUGUSTA, Maine - The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles says that a months-long investigation has led to the indictment of a Lewiston-based used car dealer.

According a press release from the BMV, Dan Pulkkinen, owner of U Turn Auto Sales in Lewiston, has been indicted on 15 counts of aggravated forgery and an aggregated theft charge, for allegedly selling his customers vehicles that had outstanding liens to his creditor.

The bureau says the investigation was prompted after it received several complaints last summer from people who said their vehicles were being repossessed even though they did not know of any outstanding liens.

The bureau says that 23 consumers were impacted in this case, but that they will be given the titles to the vehicles that they purchased.

Pulkkinen's dealer license was suspended last summer. He is scheduled to appear in Androscoggin County Superior Court.