A Wichita used car dealership and its owner can’t sell any more vehicles — at least not until it pays off hefty fines and penalties levied over bad sales and missed payments.
Jacobs Lucky and his business, 37 Auto Sales LLC, have to pay a total of $110,000 before they can sell cars again, the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office said Friday. An attorney representing the dealership, 1739 N. Broadway, did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
The pair are in trouble after a court ruled each “willfully violated” February agreements they made with the DA’s Office to settle a slew of complaints from customers for things like failing to provide vehicle titles, not honoring warranties, not disclosing a safety recall, illegally issuing multiple 60-day temporary registration permits and improperly documenting title and sales tax receipts.
The DA’s Office said in a news release Friday that the court “ordered the full amount of each judgment to be due immediately and imposed an additional $20,000.00 penalty on each” after Lucky and the dealership “failed to make payments on their respective February 2023 agreements.”
The payments were supposed to be $500 a month, court records say.
“As a result (of the new rulings), 37 Auto Sales was ordered to pay a total of $80,000 and Jacobs Lucky $30,000 in civil fines and penalties,” the DA’s news release says.
Lucky and 37 Auto Sales LLC are further “restrained and prohibited from selling cars in the State of Kansas until these judgments are paid,” and Lucky’s license to sell vehicles has been revoked, according to the news release.
The DA’s Office last year announced that 37 Auto Sales LLC and Lucky had entered into consent judgments to settle allegations stemming from an investigation into eight separate complaints from people who bought cars between April and September 2020. Each agreed to a three-year probationary period and to pay fines or fines and restitution but did not admit to any of the alleged violations, The Eagle previously reported.
February’s consent judgment wasn’t the first for the dealership. It entered into a similar agreement in May 2019 “involving other allegations of violations of the Kansas Consumer Protection Act,” the release says. Those allegations included not disclosing a safety recall and using unlicensed salesmen, The Eagle previously reported.
The latest ruling against 37 Auto Sales LLC was entered earlier this year, on July 23, according to the DA’s Office. The one against Lucky was entered on Oct. 3.
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