ATLANTA - The Hertz rental car company fights back against allegations that it falsely accused clients of car theft. But now members of Congress have called for an investigation. Many of the more than 200 customers filing suit against Hertz and its subsidiary companies are from metro Atlanta.
Bianca DeLoach is a mother of two arrested for car theft while getting gas for car theft.
It was March of last year, DeLoach and her two children pulled into a Godby Road gas station.
"I see police officers driving up and down the street fast and said to myself, ‘I wonder who are they looking for because whoever they’re looking for? I hope they don’t get away.’"
She recalls a lot of police activity entering the parking lot as she was putting gas in her rental car.
"I said, ‘Whoa, what’s going on?’ They have all their guns drawn at me. My children are sitting in the car," she recalled.
A Clayton County Sheriff’s incident report shows DeLoach was arrested that day, accused of stealing her Dollar rental car. Hertz owns Dollar as well as Thifty. Her children, then 10 and 12 years old, watched their mother crying and handcuffed, leave in a patrol car.
She says she was behind bars for nine days for a vehicle she said was paid for. Certainly not stolen.
"They took out almost $4,000," she told the Fox 5 I-Team. "And two weeks later reported the car stolen."
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