Out-of-state thief 'cloned' family's 7-year-old truck. They fought back.

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A truck that’s been in the Hempsted family nearly seven years was essentially taken from them, at least on paper. “So, it’s been a huge pain, but I don’t know how else to get around it,” Christine Hempsted told Action 9 Consumer Investigator Jeff Deal. It appears someone cloned the Orange County family’s Toyota Tacoma and registered it in another state hundreds of miles away. Christine Hempsted said she couldn’t re-register the truck in Florida after someone else registered it in Massachusetts. Part of what makes it so bizarre is that that they’ve never had the truck out of their possession since they got it in 2018. But because someone registered it up north earlier this year, they were stuck with expired Florida tags. Read more: https://www.wftv.com/news/local/local-familys-truck-cloned-registered-out-state/QRUOIWSGMJHW3GZTCBLJTII65M/