Deputy Constable Threatens to Arrest Young Man for Failing to Make Rent-to-Own Payment

We filed suit in El Paso last week against Buddy’s Furniture, a local deputy constable, and an apparent Buddy’s manager, related to alleged improper attempts to collect a debt. Our client, a young man who had done business with Buddy’s, alleged in part that a fully-uniformed deputy constable appeared at his place of employment and threatened to arrest him if he did not make a payment on his account. T. Dean Malone (Dallas) and Scott Vogelmeier (El Paso) are acting as co-counsel in the suit. Here is a link to an El Paso television story in which Mr. Vogelmeier appears -

http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/22481499/detail.html

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One Response to “Deputy Constable Threatens to Arrest Young Man for Failing to Make Rent-to-Own Payment”

Mr X Says:
February 8th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
This conduct is not only absolutely outrageous, but if Buddy’s and Rosales do not cough up some serious settlement money, I am confident any jury would award substantial actual damages. A message needs to be sent to others that such misconduct will not be tolerated.