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Woman To Get Car Deposit Back After Contacting Channel 11 News
Posted: 7:22 pm EDT April 16, 2010
Updated: 11:24 pm EDT April 16, 2010

CANONSBURG, Pa. -- A Canonsburg car dealer said he is going to return a woman’s $1,000 deposit after she changed her mind about buying the vehicle and then told Channel 11 News she hadn’t received her money back.

Cindy Larkin said she put $1,000 down as a deposit on a used Saturn car at All Pro Auto Mall and then decided not to buy the vehicle. She told Channel 11 News reporter Jodine Costanzo that the salesman told her she would get the check in two days.

“But I never received it,” Larkin said. “And I called them a couple times and he kept on telling me the same thing, ‘We sent it out.’”

That was nearly two weeks ago.

Costanzo contacted the dealership owner, Vincent Locastro, and he told her in a phone conversation on Friday that he would mail Larkin’s deposit check immediately.

Channel 11 News also discovered that he has been under investigation by state, local and federal authorities, all involving questionable business practices. He currently faces 400 charges, including theft by unlawful taking, passing bad checks and tampering with public information, Costanzo reported.

Channel 11 News also got a copy of a consent agreement and found that the state has taken action against Locastro in the past. He was ordered to pay $4,000 for selling used cars from an unauthorized location two years ago.

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