Oklahoma man Micah Jones says auto shop disappeared after waiting a year for his car to get fixed

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By Joshua Lynch

A person is demanding solutions after claiming he dropped his automotive off over a yr in the past at an auto store that apparently not exists.

Oklahoma resident Micah Jones dropped his automotive off at Jones Auto in March of final yr after crashing it right into a tree, however he hasn’t seen the car since, based on KFOR-TV.

Jones claims he was instructed it might take about 90 days to repair his mangled truck, however now says the “entire story doesn’t actually line up” after numerous texts exchanged between him and the proprietor of the store, Kirby Gallagher.

Fed up, Jones took issues into his personal fingers and made a visit to the precise auto store he dropped his automotive off at, solely to reach at a abandoned constructing with no sight of indicators, folks — or his automotive.

Images of textual content messages offered to KFOR Oklahoma’s Information 4 reveal the imprecise responses left by Gallagher after being questioned by Jones relating to when the automotive could be prepared.

“Can I get the automotive at the moment? Can I get the automotive at the moment? Automotive at the moment?” Jones texts the proprietor on Aug. 31.

“We’re getting a plan for at the moment at tag workplace,” Gallagher shoots again, to which Jones responds, “A plan for what?”

“Bringing the automotive and choose up two extra,” a wierd textual content again from Gallagher then reads.

Jones texts again two extra instances the following day however wouldn’t get a single response from the proprietor.

Jones instructed the native information station he’s feels he’s been given the runaround by Gallagher, with excuses adopted by extra excuses.

Jones says he’s lucky to have pals that permit him borrow their vehicles to drive on events.

“Individuals have been very beneficiant. I believe I’ve borrowed seven completely different vehicles or one thing like that. So, I’m very grateful for the individuals who have simply allowed me to borrow right here and there,” stated Jones. 

Jones has since filed a lawsuit and two police reviews with the Jones and Oklahoma Metropolis police departments.

The native information station reached out to Gallagher with hope for any leads on the place Jones’ automotive might be, not to mention the auto store he supposedly owns.

“We took out greater than we may, and I had some staff employed that I assumed have been higher than they have been, they usually weren’t. And, you understand, there’s no excuses. It type of sucks… I made a number of guarantees. And based mostly on the actions of different folks, to made me appear to be a idiot… It’s only a silly mistake,” Gallagher reportedly stated.

“Generally it’s not as dangerous as they give the impression of being after they’re all crunched up. And I’ve picked plenty of vehicles that seemed worse. I assumed, the worst that may occur is we will’t repair it…” he defined. “My guys took it aside. We took it to the body store. He tried to tug on it and stated, I don’t know. After which we pulled again the store and was going to attempt to discover one other donor automotive, you understand, for the interior body rails and stuff… I simply couldn’t discover something… After which I acquired busy with a bunch of different jobs and stored getting on the again burner.”