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OMAHA — Three executives from a western Nebraska car dealership are in custody after 81 new vehicles worth about $2.5 million vanished.
Besides the cars that vanished from Legacy Auto Sales’ Scottsbluff lot in the past week, an arrest warrant affidavit says controller Rachel Fait might have embezzled more than $46,000 from the dealership.
Authorities suspect owner Allen Patch and his associates planned to sell the vehicles to auction houses, said John Childress, Scotts Bluff County’s chief deputy county attorney.
Patch, 52, and Fait, 37, were arrested separately in Utah. General manager Rick Covello, 53, was driving one of the missing vehicles when he turned himself in to Scottsbluff police, said Capt. Kevin Spencer.
