North Miami Beach, FL – 29 March 2018 – On March 8th, The North Miami Beach arrested 24 year old Giovanny Mestre, camera car driver for “Prestige Auto Towing”, who had recently purchased a state licensed repossession company, “Gryphon Recovery Inc.”, for pulling a knife on a borrower during a verbal argument over his attempt to repossess a borrowers KIA.
According to the source of the police report, the assignment was allegedly assigned to them by national forwarder, Consumer Portfolio Services of California. Upon searching the camera car, police found Mestre’s young child asleep without a car seat in the back of Toyota camera car at the time of the incident. A search of Florida’s repossession agency regulating Department of Agriculture’s agent search website shows no record of Giovanny Mestre being licensed as a recovery agent, recovery agent intern, recovery agent instructor, or an agency manager pursuant to Chapter 493, Florida Statutes..
The attached police report claims that Detectives were on the scene and witnessed Mestre arguing with a borrower with a pocket knife in his hand and shouting “I’m from the hood my N$#&@! I know how to use this $hit!”
Once Mestra was made aware of the presence of police, he hid the knife under the front seat of the Toyota. Police back up was called in and Detectives calmed the situation placing Mestre under arrest.
In the back seat of the Toyota camera car, Mestre’s young child (age and sex withheld) was found asleep on the seat without a car seat.
The child was taken by police to NMBPD and later released to his mother, Mestre’s girlfriend.
The police report states that Mestre is being charged with felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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