Removing Someone Else’s Vehicle From Your Property

Location: Oklahoma

I had a flat tire earlier this week and couldn’t make it all the way home. I pulled onto a side street and parked until my husband and I could get back to it. There is no curb, just street and grass. My vehicle’s passenger side tires were on the grass. When we went back to retrieve it, it had been drug 50 feet or so.

Apparently, the collapsing privacy fence has a gate that I parked in front of. The person who owns that house hooked a chain under my car and drug it. In park. How do I know this? Because I posted about my misfortune on a community social media page and he commented to tell me exactly what he did and why.

The car had suspension damage that we were working to fix, reason the tire went flat, but it’s been way compounded. The transmission or drive train has some damage as well because it’s very hard to shift.

Our town police chief asked me to come submit a statement, said it was at least destruction of private property, but the officer we spoke to at the station wasn’t sure. He said that’s not the way to do it but wasn’t sure what he could do charge wise.

My question is, what can I do? If he’d called the police, they’d have run my tag and came to my house. If he’d have had it towed, the tow and storage would have cost less than what the estimate to make it drivable again is so far. I’m out time from work and I’m out a vehicle. The person admitted to what he did, screenshots have been taken, so it’s too late to delete it now.

Thank you, in advance.