Turn around. Turn around. Turn around. Turn around. Turn around. Come on. I have no idea what's happening right now. Coast Guard officer Shane Sprag bought his dream truck from a car dealership in South Florida. For many years, Shane had wanted this specific truck, a GMC 1500 AT4X. He worked hard. He made sacrifices in order to save the money for the down payment. He test drove the truck. He loved it. He put down a $15,000 deposit, traded in a 2012 Ford Focus, and financed the rest for the $61,230 purchase price through this car dealer. A dealership employee even snapped a photo of Shane looking happy with the purchase and later texted him thanking him for the sale and wishing him well. But 10 days later, on July 1st, an unmarked F-150 rammed his rear bumper and he was arrested at gunpoint by Broward County Sheriff's deputies. Apparently, the dealership had mistakenly reported his brand new truck stolen. So, the vehicle was reported stolen out of uh the dealership. It was D Volkswagen that basically reported as stolen. But rather than do their job competently and realizing this before they rammed him or pointed guns at him or took him into an interrogation room for an extended period of time, Shane was forced to prove his own innocence to these officers who still didn't let him go. That's the guy. Yeah, this is in the truck. Ali. Ali. Hi, Shane. Real pleasure meeting you today. Thank you for your business. Best wishes and happy murdering Ali Dorado Volkswagen. Cool. This is the very reason that you have to constantly safeguard your personal private information. Credit reporting agency TransUnion suffered a data breach on August 28th, exposing sensitive data, including names, dates of birth, social security numbers, billing addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of approximately 4.4 million people. The number of data breaches worldwide rises every year. 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I'll link their channel and the video down below. It was June 21st, 2025 that Shane drove his dream truck off the dealer's lot. He had spent four hours at Dural Volkswagen that day where he digitally signed all of the sales documents was issued a new registration for the truck and after having made a down payment was given a key to the truck as well as a flash drive with a digital copy of all of the documents that he had signed. The dealership employee took a photo of Shane smiling as he sat in the front seat of his new truck. And then he drove off the lot and drove home happy that he was now the proud owner of a new truck. Afterwards, the dealership employee sent Shane a text thanking him and wishing him well. And for the next 10 days, Shane drove his new truck every day driving from his home in Sunrise, Florida to his place of work at the Opaaka Coast Guard Station. Even though the dealership had all of Shane's contact information, including his home address in Sunrise, Florida, he received no communications from them during this time period about any issue with the truck. On July 1st, 2025, Shane's day took a terrifying turn. That day, he went to work like normal at the Coast Guard station. Then, in the afternoon, he left work to go to a physical therapy appointment in Broward County, Florida. After finishing the physical therapy session, he walked to his new truck. He sat in the driver's seat. Almost immediately, an unmarked Ford F-150 rammed the back bumper of his new truck, pinning him into the parking space. He saw blue and red lights flashing all around him. He was shocked. He did not know what was happening. With guns drawn, multiple Broward Sheriff's deputies surrounded him. They ordered him out of the truck. In the middle of the parking lot at the physical therapy place, with bystanders watching, the Broward Sheriff's deputies ordered Shane to lift his shirt to make sure he had no weapons and to walk towards them. Come here. Come here. You got nobody else in the car. Turn around. Turn around. Turn around. Turn around. Turn around. What is going on? Hey, what you doing on your side? Anybody else with driver? Driver side approach. Got it. I got nothing. Actually, we're going to put real quick. He was humiliated in front of the bystanders as well as the physical therapy staff and he was just stuffed into the back of a police cruiser even though he had committed no criminal offenses. Shane asked multiple times, but the deputies never told him why he had been handcuffed or why he was now sitting in the back of a police cruiser. Can you guys tell me what's going on? So, the lead detective is going to come over and explain everything to you. Just give us a right here. All right. Okay. You got it. Is that Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. I am. I'm actually bus. Yeah. I'm the maintenance officer for the Coast Guard association in I have no idea what's happening right now. I'm trying to get the main detective to come here. I don't want to like jump the gun and explain everything to you when another detective explain everything to los right now. He'll make he'll make more sense of what's going on. I wish I could just go and tell you I don't want to step on the boat. arrested. Right now, you're just detained. You're pending an investigation. So, you're not arrested. They're going to come over here. They're going to talk to you. They're going to tell you everything that's going on. So, you can't understand cuz I know you're confused right now. Yeah. Come over here and see. Whatever you guys need. Wish you guys would have said I wish you guys would have had my truck. I just got it. I just got the text message that my payment stuff just started. Yeah. All right. What's that? Okay. Take back the office so you can talk to them thereally. Come here real quick. Or you're not being charged anything right now. You're not under arrest for any crime right now. You're just being investigated or something. I'm so lost right now. Shane says that he's so lost right now. Well, he's not the only one who's so lost at this point. These Broward County Sheriff's deputies are telling Shane that he's not under arrest, that he's just under investigation and he's being detained pursuant to that investigation. Meanwhile, the video and the audio shows us that there is in fact no investigation taking place. The only thing that there is taking place is an arrest, which pursuant to the fourth amendment of the US Constitution, there has to be a warrant to arrest Shane. or for a warrantless arrest, there has to be probable cause, which would mean that these police officers who handcuffed this man, who put him in the back of a police car, and who are now going through the stuff inside his truck, would have to have some information and belief that Shane had committed the crime for which he's being arrested, probable cause. Instead, this video shows that these deputies apparently don't know what the hell is going on. But Shane does know what's going on. He's telling them this is his brand new truck. He's a US Coast Guard officer. He has no idea what they're talking about. He's at a loss. He's done nothing wrong. Had Shane been detained because they were investigating whether Shane had done anything wrong, one would probably listen to what he's saying, that's what we would call clues. But because they didn't, there really can't be any doubt here that a warrantless arrest took place for which probable cause is required. Your time is on, right? Yeah. Hey, you just had some money your phone in your wallet. Okay, I'll leave the boat back in there. Okay, you guys going to take my truck or I'll think my son's dropping. So, I'll have to come get my truck. Okay. Uh, I don't know what's happening with the truck right now. Um, just get the detective. They're detective. They're going to tell you I don't know. The deputy searched his truck, tossed his personal belongings around, ultimately leaving them in the truck, and towing the truck. He was transported to a nearby police station, put in a holding cell, and told to wait. While waiting, he still had not been told why he had been arrested. Later, he was taken to an interview room where he met with detectives from the Deral Police Department, who finally told him that everything that had just happened had something to do with his new truck. They told him that his truck had been reported stolen by the Dural Volkswagen dealership. All right. Um, so obviously we need to talk to you in reference to the incident for today. Okay. Um, it's going to I'm going to be honest with you, it's about your car. Okay. Um, what I want to know is how you got the car, when you got the car, by what means. Just give me the rundown. How everything started with you. I'm super nervous. So, go down. All right. Derel Volkswagen. Okay. Last Saturday. Last Saturday. Okay. Well, you know, around what time? Um, I think I finished around 2 p.m. Okay. Um, and what happened there? I drove off, went to my girlfriend's house. Let's not fast forward too much. So, you went into a Volkswagen with the intention Oh. to purchase a new vehicle. Okay. And then what happened after that? um showed up, they came out, I said, "Hey, I had that vehicle particular picked out. I called in the morning." Who did you speak with? Um the first time I spoke with just a regular person, but then when I got there, Ali was my sales representative. Is that a nickname or is that his full? Uh I think that's his full name. That's what his business card says. Okay. And then I also spoke with a general service manager. Uh his first name is Chris and he's a friend of another a friend of mine's mom. Um, so Chris kind of helped work the deal. Um, test drove the truck was exactly what I wanted, pulled back in. They looked over, my son had a Ford Focus that I was trading in. Okay. Um, they looked over the Ford Focus. I did their numbers on tradein stuff. I didn't really want anything for the Focus. I think they came back with $1,500 for that. I was, "Yep, I want the truck." Okay. Um, they were very quick on the deal. We agreed on a price. Any documents were given to uh Yeah. You have you have the sales documents um in my house? Yeah. At your house? Mhm. And the sales documents have the everything for the everything? Yeah. Um it was actually really I would say easier cuz I had bought a car in shoot 15 years. I drive an old Tacoma that my son now drives. I don't know if any of you guys are Tacoma fans, but I almost cried when I had it. I can imagine. Um but yeah, it was super easy. Everything was online. I have a disc with like all the paperwork. Okay. So, they give you a disc. Yeah. Okay. It's like a USB thumb drive. Do you remember who exactly was the sales sales representative? I know you said Ali, but any other, you know, any nickname or any uh last name, business card, anything? I have his business card. I have his business card. Okay. So, then you did the documents for the purchase of the vehicle and then what happened after that? Um did the documents went to the um I call finance manager. Okay. one finance manager did all our financing. Um had some issues transferring over some money that was kind of a pain. So I ended up having cuz I put $15,000 down. Okay. So I transferred over like 5,000 on my American Express and then like $7,000 through USA which was like my limit. Okay. Um question for you start the What was the sticker price on the car? Um 60 619. Was it brand new? Uh it's used. Used how many miles? 22,000. Okay. Put like 400 on it, I think. Okay. Put that on there. You You drove it today to the uh to the Coast Guard bay down and back to physical therapy. Okay. You're recovering from uh nailing. Yes. Okay. I hurt my back. Oh, okay. Um All righty. So, the reason why you're in this position. Okay. Um, so the vehicle was reported stolen out of uh the dealership. Okay. Um, it's it could be a miscommunication on their end cuz it was Dorado Volkswagen that basically reported it as stolen. Yeah. So, you got the tag from the dealer and they told you they were going to transfer the tag. Yeah. The registration's in the gold box. So, the tag that was on the truck today was on my Focus. Okay. So, it was previously on your car. Yeah. register. That's your tag. Mhm. Okay. Um and it was on a focus previously. Mhm. 2012 Ford Focus. Okay. Uh as far as payments, did you you haven't paid the truck? You haven't paid for anything yet? So, I paid the 15,000 cash is paid for for my down payment. Okay. And I just got my notification today that um the it's on my phone. I can show you on the text message that my payments are getting ready to start. Okay. And for as part of the purchase agreement, was there any documentation that you had to present after you drove the vehicle off the lot, like the next day or the week after? No. Nothing. So they they signed you already signed and the truck was yours? Yeah. Yeah. So, as a matter of fact, um because on Saturday we couldn't get the full transfer done, I called the finance manager back on what's his name? Tuesday. Um Mr. Sprag, shocked by the accusations, told the detectives that he bought the truck and he had proof on his phone. I don't have my phone. Bring it. What's bring um Frank? Frank. Frank is the service manager. The the tag that you have have on the truck now, that's the tag that was on the Focus. That was the tag that was on the Focus. Have you ever owned a Chevy? No. No. Um, I mean a blazer like when I was in high school. What color? Black. At some point while he was talking to the detectives, a detective told Shane that the truck registered to him was still on Dural Volkswagen's lot and that he had driven off with the wrong truck. So the tag that was on your truck, all right, comes back to a Chevy pickup. Okay. And the Chevy pickup's under your name. Should be that should be picked up or that GMC picked up. No. So the tag that's attached to the truck now. Mhm. When we run that tag, it comes back to a Chevy pickup under your neck. What? So it never belonged to It never was never attached. Well, I don't want to say it was never attached. Just looking at the um Eventually, the detectives gave Mr. break his phone and he showed them the text messages that he had exchanged with Ali, the Dural Volkswagen salesperson. And that also showed the license plate of this AT4X truck. Oh, here's here's some more messages. This is from my uh my sales guy. That's the sales guy. Yeah, this is here. Leave it in the truck. Ali Ali. Okay, that's from the dealer. Leave it in the truck. Yeah. Can we call him? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, D. I think he's he's the old dude that works in there. He's been there like 20 years. So, one detective calls Ali, who was the salesperson who sold him the truck, and he exits the interview room. Is this the tag on? That's when they put it on the douches. Mhm. Okay. Yeah. Hi, Shane. Real pleasure meeting you today. Thank you for your business. Best wishes and happy murdering Ali Draw Volkswagen. Cool. And this was All right. Just so we get it straight. June 21st. So that's two Saturdays ago, right? Let me verify. Yeah. Saturday. Saturday before last. Yeah. Two Saturdays. Yeah, I think the truck has got low track on it, too, which is probably I thought you guys found me at bay light. Um, so now it's well over an hour after Shane had been arrested at gunpoint. He had answered all their questions. Ironically, during this interrogation so far, the only investigation that occurred was Shane's investigation using his phone to show these so-called detectives that there was some sort of clerical mistake occurring here. Did they immediately release him with an apology and then go swear out a warrant for whichever employee at the car dealership filed a false police report? No, of course not. Yeah. So, basically, it's this is just a formality. At the end of the day, we don't know what we have until we investigate a little further. That's when we interview. Um, you know, once we verify all the details, actually, the way that this is supposed to work is you guys who are supposedly detectives are supposed to do this little investigation thing before you arrest somebody in public in front of their physical therapists, humiliating and degrading them. And that's also why you're supposed to do that investigation and then present those facts to a neutral and detached magistrate to review that evidence for the existence of probable cause. I mean, how lazy and incompetent do you have to be to perform zero investigation and just arrest a guy by ramming him and holding him at gunpoint and bringing him in handcuffs into your office because you're too lazy to go out to the scene and having him explain to you what could have been cleared up in 5 minutes at the scene with none of this happening. There's nothing to hide in this one. I mean, clearly we're going through just going this is what I don't understand though is like the tag thing. That's I mean that's that's we we'll talk about that after. We just need to verify. Uh he's on the phone with the Yeah. So there's a cortex and then there's a arm. Okay. So it's so basically seems that they Okay. It sounds like they messed up. Yeah. After speaking to Ali and reviewing Shane's phone messages, the detectives realized for the first time that something must be wrong. They told Shane that the tag on his AT4X truck was not assigned to it. However, the detectives eventually confirmed that Shane purchased the AT4X truck from Dural Volkswagen on June 21st, 2025 and told him the location of where his truck had been towed and released him. They basically Is your phone or his phone? That's his phone. And then if you swipe to the Carfax, it comes back to the 1,500. Yeah, it is a 1500. Yeah, but it's like a diesel um like lower model. Oh, cuz that's a AT4. This is coming back to That's an AT4X, man. My bad. My bad. So, it seems like we can smile a little bit. No. No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. At this point, they just don't beat me up, man. No, no, no. Hopefully, we didn't treat you too rough. I want to hug I want a hug when I'm done. We'll talk after this. Maybe some coffee. I got some advice after this. Um, yeah. Once he's done with this, he's actually talking to the sales rep once he comes back. Finish. Okay. I'll just tell you straight. I mean, you can sue him. Well, now the tables have turned and the cops are going into CYA mode and they're about to throw the dealership completely under the bus. And what ended up happening was Shane filed a lawsuit against Deral Volkswagen. And looking at this footage and looking at the allegations in that lawsuit, which I will link below, it appears that they deserve every bit of that lawsuit. But as we know from numerous other videos I've covered, like Walmart videos for instance, just because Karen at Walmart calls 911 and reports either correct or incorrect allegations, that doesn't make Walmart legally responsible for the the choices, the decisions that law enforcement officers make with that information, whether true or not, that they're given by some third party. So, even if the dealership mistakenly or negligently or recklessly or even intentionally misreported Shane's new truck is being a stolen vehicle that actually belongs to them, that does not automatically then just justify law enforcement officers ramming into your vehicle, pulling you out at gunpoint, arresting you, taking you down to the station, and interrogating you for an hour or hour plus mere reports from a car dealership. or Walmart or Karen, that does not equate to probable cause to arrest somebody without a warrant. That might be enough for reasonable suspicion to detain somebody and investigate the allegations further, which is what should have been done in this case because I'm sure this actually happens all the time. And we don't see police departments across the country every time this happens going out and just ramming the vehicle and not even looking at the obvious indications that it's a mistake, that the person's completely innocent. So, in my opinion, in addition to suing the dealership, they also should have sued every law enforcement officer who played a part in helping to make this happen. And the worst thing that happened here was that they took this clerical report that this vehicle was stolen from a dealership. We're not talking about allegations of a carjacking and using that alone with no corroboration, with no common sense, going straight to violence, ramming the vehicle and aiming deadly weapons at this guy. There was no information indicating that this man, Shane, was armed or dangerous or posed any sort of immediate threat to these officers to justify aiming their guns at him. That is in and of itself a Fourth Amendment violation. And the dealership is not responsible. They did not ask for that. They do not have the legal power to direct police officers to do that. But then again, maybe they should have known that that is what would happen. After all, we are talking about the Broward County Sheriff's Office, the same office I just recently featured in my video about the wrong mom who was arrested off of the cruise ship at Christmas time under very similar circumstances. I'll post a full copy of the lawsuit at the link below, and I'll continue to follow this one. So, you can follow along by subscribing both here and at the blog at the civil rightsawyer.com. Let me know your thoughts in a comment, especially if you're a law enforcement officer. 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