DA Announces Auction of 43 Seized Vehicles

Luxury sedans and SUVs available for purchase; proceeds fund law enforcement

MINEOLA – Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced today that 43 vehicles that were seized by the Nassau County Police Department will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on Wednesday, December 3 at the Eighth Precinct in Levittown.

Twenty-one vehicles were seized from DWI offenders, 12 from those with drug charges, five from burglary and robbery defendants, two from tax violators, and one each from defendants with forgery, criminally negligent homicide, and vehicular assault convictions.

The auction includes:

• A 1999 Mercedes-Benz that was owned by a defendant convicted of buying more than $2,500 worth of merchandise at Bloomingdale’s with counterfeit $50 bills.
• A 2002 Ford Taurus whose owner was sentenced to five years in prison for burglary after ransacking a home and stealing jewelry.
• A 1998 Chevrolet and 1995 GMC that were both involved in separate incidents where the vehicles’ owners were convicted of violating the cigarette tax law. In the case of the Chevrolet, the defendant had a flat tire on the Long Island Expressway. When a police officer stopped to assist him, the officer found the backseat filled with cartons of untaxed cigarettes.

Rice said that the auction is being run by Buffalo-based Auctions International. Proceeds from the auction will go to the DA’s Forfeiture Fund. That money is put back into the community through crime-reduction programs and investigations.

“We aggressively investigate and prosecute crime, and when it’s all over, we go after the criminals’ proceeds,” Rice said. “We make sure crime doesn’t pay, and that the criminals are the people picking up the tab.”

For a full list of the vehicles available, visit www.auctionsinternational.com, or call 1-800-536-1401.