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Gotcha Towing

Many we talked to claim the employees gave them the green light to leave their cars there while they attended the rally. “They said we could park,” said another. “The managers inside promised them they could park here,” Zandar DeSoto said.

We talked to the on-duty manager this morning, and they said: “I told several people they cannot park here. We have a towing-enforced sign. That’s my statement.”

As frustration mounted police were called, but the only thing officials could do was to drive people to the towing company to pay the fines and pull out their cars. “The tow company is saying that it’s about 380 dollars cash,” one rallygoer explained. But most reluctantly did what they had to do to get home.

After digging into Gotcha Towing, we came across documents from the NCDOR stating that the company’s business license was been suspended for failing to pay its taxes. The notification reads: “Any act performed or attempted to be performed while the entity is suspended is invalid and has no effect until the entity is reinstated by the Department of Revenue.” We also found a statute that suggests the signage was improper. After trying to call Gotcha Towing about what happened, an employee there told WBTV: “We got called in to remove those vehicles, that weren’t permitted to park there, that wasn’t free public parking.”

That person then abruptly hung up before answering questions about the suspended business license.

We did check in with police and they said it’s more of a civil matter and pretty much out of their control.