Former owner of Hampton car dealership charged with fraud

State police cited 14 instances in which a vehicle buyer did not receive a title within 90 days as required. In 12 of the cases, Deller did not pay the taxes and fees due to the state, or the checks sent to pay them were not good, police said. The sales occurred between December 2005 and April 2006.

Police said in two cases, Deller failed to send titles to lenders to secure loans, resulting in his receiving the proceeds of the fraudulent loans and customers being responsible for the loans and having no ownership of the vehicles. In one case from August 2003, Deller did this seven times, with a combined loan value of $41,213, police said. The other case involved the sale of two vehicles in May 2006 at a value of $11,963.19.

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