Rental car giant Hertz faces mounting allegations that it filed false theft reports against its customer resulting in arrests and jail time. FOX 5 I-Team's Dana Fowle talked to some of the victims who claim that this is not a one-off but a systemic issue.
ATLANTA - Hertz, the car rental giant, faces mounting allegations that it filed false car theft reports against its customers resulting in arrests and jail time. Victims told the FOX 5 I-Team this is not a one-off but rather a systemic issue.
These customers ranged from people using one of the Hertz companies to rent a vehicle after a car accident, some for vacation travel, some as part of a Lyft driver program. But none expected to be arrested, much less at gunpoint.
Paul-Anthony Knight was headed to work in the morning rush hour. He was traveling through the congested connector. Behind him police cars were weaving through traffic, coming up quickly along the shoulders.
All of a sudden, there are three police cars behind me. I looked up. They were after me," he said.
And they had weapons, pointed at him.
We watched Mr. Knight looking at the dashcam video for the first since his November 2019 arrest.
Visibly upset he said, "This moment changed my life. I was told this vehicle has been reported stolen. I was in a stolen vehicle."
He was charged with felony theft of the rental car he was driving. He was cuffed, put into the police car, then went to jail.
"One very long week," he said.
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