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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Texas licenses Lone Star Auto Services under new names

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It only took a week - a record time by state standards - but Lone Star Auto Services is about to get back into the towing business in Dallas. And there's probably not a damn thing the City can do in order to deny them a new towing license.

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations, which is responsible for towing and storage services, issued new licenses last week for Ideal Towing of Dallas LLC and Champion Tows LLC, both located at 8035 East RL Thornton Boulevard in Dallas.

James Mosser, the attorney who represented Lone Star Auto during the City's permit revocation hearing in early December, is listed as the owner of Champion (see license information here - PDF). Loyd Robertson, a manager for Lone Star Auto, is listed as the owner of Ideal (see license information here - PDF).

Another company, Secure Auto Pound and Storage, LLC, was created with an address on Ledbetter Blvd. Hilary Watson, listed as the company President, was a payroll manager for Lone Star Auto (see license information here - PDF).

The entire state licensing and registration process took less than three days, according to the calendar posted on the TDLR website (Ideal, Champion, Secure - all PDFs).

BD's sources say that Lone Star's revoked towing license listed Mosser and Robertson as company officers.

As of late Wednesday afternoon, neither towing service has been issued a City of Dallas towing license. These same sources believe Lone Star Auto will create a number of shell companies in order to maintain the same level of towing business (and the infamous government entity fee) as possible, no matter how many times the City shuts them down.

This information was received too late in the day to get any comments from City officials, but we hope to have something posted by Thursday. The state's lead investigator on the Lone Star Auto case was also unavailable at this hour.

This is a developing story...


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Jason Rice Verified

Man, if a lawyer is willing to act as officer, there has got to be some serious money in this scam!

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Travis Bush Verified

Here we go again. What will it take to get rid of these redneck gangsters?

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Chris Kidd Verified

Im believing a small amount of c4 should do the trick travis...Now, we just need to find someone who's willing to go in and handle up..

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xdavidwattsx Anonymous

Good work, Avi. Looking forward to some follow up on this dirty story.

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CitizenKane Anonymous

It's time to focus attention on attorney James Mosser.

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Scott Doyle Verified

sigh

Hate to give Avi kudos, but it's well deserved here.

Can't believe peeps who have been towed by these pricks haven't taken matters into their own hands instead of leaving it up to the city. This is Texas!

10 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Jason Rice Verified

Yeah, Scott - I knew you'd have mixed emotions about this one.

Is my enemy's enemy my ally?

But if you had a dog to sic on them, that's my first choice. Popcorn anybody?

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Billusa99 Anonymous

Get bats... baseball bats... I hear they are all the rage right now.

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xdavidwattsx Anonymous

Yeah, ScoD. I had a hard time giving props to Avi, but he deserves a high five on this one.

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