A Pennsylvania man was recently sentenced to 30 months in prison after being convicted in a federal court of tampering with an odometer and forging vehicle titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earnest Fry, 49, of Harrisburg, Pa., pleaded guilty<\/a> to the charges in U.S. District Court. He was ordered to pay $47,000 in restitution along with serving two and half years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the U.S. Middle District of Pennsylvania, Fry was on parole when he started purchasing used vehicles, altering the mileage. U.S. Attorney Gerard Karam said in a press release that Fry would replace or reset the odometer on the vehicles. He is suspected to have sold 55 vehicles and rolled back more than 5 million miles. Fry also was found to have altered titles to reflect the lower mileage of the vehicles he sold at inflated prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The case is not an isolated incident and stresses the importance of purchasing from a licensed dealer. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration<\/a> estimates more than 450,000 vehicles are purchased each year with altered odometer readings, costing buyers more than $1 billion. A CARFAX study<\/a> from last year showed a 14 percent rise in vehicles with rolled-back odometers. California had a reported 469,000 vehicles with rolled-back odometers and Texas 277,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania man was recently sentenced to 30 months in prison after being convicted in a federal court…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-industry","8":"cs-entry","9":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}