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Sentencing for 2017 Body Shop Shooting in Virgina, Injuries to Employee were Non-Fatal by Julia Varnier, WTKR News 3
News 3 in Norfolk, VA, reported that the Williamsburg, VA, man who shot a local auto body shop employee was sentenced in court on April 17. Michael Sean Taylor will serve 20 years for all his offenses and has an indefinite supervised probation time after his release. He was charged with all felonies, so his case was waived to a grand jury. District courts did
not have the authority to find him guilty or not. Taylor racked up a long list of charges for allegedly walking into Ebby’s Auto Painting and Collision Repair with three firearms— including two handguns and a shot gun—on July 25, 2017. Court documents state Taylor targeted and shot an employee several times. He then barricaded himself inside of Ebby’s body shop. We thank WTKR News 3 for reprint permission.
Common Mistakes Body Shops Make When Recycling & Staying Green by Ed Attanasio
ices for recalled and expired goods. It also provides related education and training services for many companies, including collision repair shops. Headquartered in Lake Forest, IL, with many more bases of operation around the world, Stericycle maintains toxic waste incinerators in Utah and North Carolina.
Wade Scheel, director of governmental affairs at Stericycle Environmental Solutions, has been working at the 30year-old compliance company for 11 years and has three decades of industry experience. Stericycle specializes Wade Scheel, in collecting and disposing director of regulated substances, such governmental as medical waste and sharps, affairs at Stericycle pharmaceuticals, hazardous Environmental Solutions waste, and providing serv-
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Tampa, FL, Police Bust Repair Shop Owner for Running Stolen Car Chop Shop by Isabel Rosales, ABC Action News
Tampa Police Department is investigating as stolen cars were stripped down for parts. TPD arrested a repair shop owner for allegedly running a chop shop.
Lisa Alucard is still in love with her classic 78’ Pontiac Firebird. She knows what it feels like to have a car torn apart. She believes she may have been a victim of a chop shop scheme years ago. Alucard says
it took her a year to get her car back. “The car inside was in near mint condition and they just ruined it,” she said. According to court documents, Alucard’s neighbor got her car stolen but a GPS she hid inside brought Tampa Police to R & G Auto Body LLC on North 40th Street. There they ended up finding two stolen cars and two others with missing VINs. They found the woman’s stolen Nissan but the stock tires and rims and driver’s seat had been removed from the car and replaced with other parts. TPD arrested owner Rafael Garcia and charged him with operating a chop shop. The document says Garcia did not display a current and valid business license and admitted he did not See Chop Shop, Page 15
CIC Speakers Debate Need to Legislate Use of OEM Repair Procedures
was geared towards new limits the legislation would have placed on the State legislative efforts to enact leg- use of non-OEM parts. islation on the use of OEM repair pro“In the collision industry, we cedures have bogged down. can’t seem to escape loading Other issues, such as steerthese things up,” Bob Reding and non-OEM parts, ding, national lobbyist for have taken priority. Therethe Automotive Service Asfore, these issues are being sociation (ASA), said of incorporated into the prosuch state bills. “Only a few posed legislation, according [of the current proposed state regulations] are skinny to speakers at the Collision Bob Redding bills, dealing with OEM Industry Conference held in procedures. We often see parts get in. Nashville, TN. For example, a bill in Nevada In some state bills, like in Texas, you that would have prohibited an in- see steering slip in there. When you surer “to repair a motor vehicle in a have a bill moving, people try to manner which is contrary to the rec- solve every single issue in it. It brings ommendations of the manufacturer in all sorts of controversy when it of the vehicle,” failed to move for- picks those other kinds of things. It ward by a legislative deadline, this brings out other adversaries, and typspring. Opposition to the bill surfaced ically [the bills] have problems along at a hearing in March. The opposition See CIC Speakers Page 18 by John Yoswick
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