Ferrari Enzo crash in Malibu

LOL, of course it's a fake.

It's about time this scumbag was finally brought to justice. I'm utterly amazed it has taken this long...

 

jesus they don't have a flat-bed to tow the SLR?

 

What I find surprising is, with all the scams this guy pulled why was it so easy to nab him in the end? Maybe he had painted himself into a corner or, he got really sloppy. Oh well.

 

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/10/MNG0AI6L661.DTL

 

A radiator hose fragment is intellectual property?

Sounds like eBay is being overly responsive in this case...

 

Jon, I think it's BS, too. Have written to eBay, VERO, and Ferrari and get no response. The whole auction was a joke, but some felt it was in poor taste. All it takes is one complaint, I guess. Whatever, I wasn't in it for the $$, just some laughs.

BTW, since he's in the slammer, guess he won't be exercising his option on the Veyron. One of you guys should grab it

 

I just saw a preview for this story on CNN. Three months later its still hot!

 

Will all his possessions and accounts be turned over? Is his wife in any trouble?

 

Just for being photographed without her makeup............

Sounds to me like the BANK wants that hose back, you'd better let them have it! The article cites the "Red Enzo" as if it is still an asset, after being scattered down the road! I can see some loan officer with a 55 gallon drum of superglue......

You know I've had a real bad year, but this even tops my deals here in Texas! Amazing....

 

I anticipate that the new Grand Theft Auto game will have an Enzo that hits a pole.

 

Things are really differentin America. The law is much stricter there than here in UK. Do they really arrest u and throw you in prison for driving a car on no documents and not keeping up the payments.
In Uk you will probably get a good telling off from the Bank and they will take the car.
A few years back we had a lot of Mercedes Benz,Porsche being bought on Fianance in Uk and then being shipped out to the Far east, cos legally thats not theft as long as you made of 3 payments and there were hundreds of cars being put into containers and shipped to Malyasia and Hong Kong. You cannot go to prison for that because its a civil matter between you and the fianance house who loaned you the money.
In Uk we getaway with more than you guys across the pond can.

 

I think the car thing just attracted the gendarmes' attention. No debtor's prison here, either; no arrest for a civil matter. Homeland security was involved, cars were impounded because they were brought into the country illegally and not registered, but Stefan is in deep stuff for something. Real story may follow some day.

 

LOLLL.

 

Ferrari Case Continues to Widen
Man whose car crashed in Malibu could be deported. A firearm and possibly cocaine were found in his home.
By Richard Winton and David Pierson, Times Staff Writers
April 11, 2006

The investigation into a former Swedish video game executive whose rare Ferrari crashed in Malibu widened Monday as the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency confirmed it is investigating Stefan Eriksson.

Eriksson, 44, is expected to appear in court today or Wednesday after Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies arrested him over the weekend. They allege that his $3.5-million car collection — the red Ferrari Enzo, a black Enzo and a custom Mercedes — belonged to British financial institutions, not to him.

Sheriff's officials told The Times on Monday that in addition to the cars, detectives who searched his Bel-Air home seized several computers, a firearm and a substance believed to be cocaine. Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said the substance is now being tested.

Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, declined to provide details about the inquiry. But one question that has emerged since the crash is how Eriksson was able to get the rare cars into the United States — especially if British financial institutions claimed ownership of them.

Kice said that the customs agency has placed an immigration hold on Eriksson so if he is released from the county's Men's Central Jail it will be able to take him into custody.

"He is potentially subject to deportation," she said.

The federal probe is just one of several into Eriksson and the crash.

The Sheriff's Department is investigating the Malibu accident as well as a San Gabriel Valley transit company where Eriksson served as a member of the "anti-terrorism" unit. Scotland Yard has told local authorities it is investigating the ownership of at least one of the cars in his collection.

Although no one was seriously injured in the February crash, the investigation has generated significant attention because of the strange circumstances surrounding it and the fact that it destroyed one of the only 400 Enzos ever built. Authorities believe the car was going 162 mph when it smashed into a power pole.

Eriksson told deputies who arrived at the scene that he was not the driver and that a man named Dietrich had been behind the wheel. Eriksson said Dietrich fled the scene.

Investigators took a swab of Eriksson's saliva in order to compare his DNA to blood found on the Ferrari's driver-side air bag. The results are back, but detectives won't release the findings.

A blood-alcohol test on Eriksson at the time showed him to be above the legal limit for driving in California, so he could face several other charges if he is found to be the driver.

Eriksson also told deputies at the scene that he was deputy commissioner of the police department of the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority, a tiny private agency that provides rides to the disabled and elderly. A few minutes after the crash, two men arrived at the scene, identified themselves as Homeland Security officers and spoke to Eriksson at length before leaving. Detectives are investigating any connection Eriksson may have had to the agency.

Eriksson's attorney could not be reached for comment. Detectives over the weekend spent more than six hours searching his home in the posh Bel-Air Crest gated community. Several neighbors reached Monday said they didn't notice the search and didn't know Eriksson.

Before arriving in Los Angeles, Eriksson was an executive with Gizmondo, a European video game company that filed for bankruptcy earlier this year with more than $200 million in debt. According to Swedish authorities, he served prison time in the early 1990s after being convicted of financial crimes.

 

If all he gets from this is deported that would be a travesty. Give him some serious hard time and THEN deport him, or better yet extradite him to England so they can fry his sorry butt some more. I'm about sick of people getting away with criminal activities because they have money.

 

Sounds like this guy will do some time again. The various authorities are working on nailing this guy to the wall this time.

 

from an irish news paper

 

THAT JUST GOES TO SHOW WHAT ADRENALINE CAN DO....OR PERHAPS HE WAS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SOMETHING, AND AFTER THE ACCIDENT, AS ITS THE CASE, SOBBERED UP AND DECIDED IT WAS BEST TO CLEAR THE SPACE....

 

What a stupid **** ! How can you be so visible as in owning 2 Enzos with brit licence plates , and parking them all over the west coast when you are a runner ?

 

YOU HAVE A GOOD POINT THERE, HOWEVER...

- A RACE GONE WRONG STORY STILL SOUNDS BETTER THAN ONE WHERE
YOU JUST LOST CONTROL OF YOUR CAR
- IT COULD DIVERT ATTENTION FROM A DWI FOR EXAMPLE, (or something
else for that matter, raise the mistery factor, which it did)
- AND MY GUESS IS, SOMEONE WHO HAS TWO ENZOS, ONE SLR, AND
FROM WHAT I READ, A 14 MILL YACHT AS A HOUSE, COULD PROBABLY
CARE LESS ABOUT THE INSURANCE CASH
WOULDNT YOU AGREE?

 

Is the $14 mil yacht where he lives full time when here? I thought he also had a mansion in Bel Air?

 

IM GERMAN BORN AND RAISED IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD, BUT I WAS FORTUNATE AND LUCKY AND BLESSED TO BE ABLE TO LIVE IN THE STATES FOR SOME TIME, AND I LACK WORDS OF BEAUTY THAT WOULD MAKE IT JUSTICE, ...... I LOVE YOUR COUNTRY ! YOU HAVE TO HAVE SPENT SOME TIME TO TRULY APPRECIATE THE BEAUTY OF THAT LAND AND ITS GREAT PEOPLE, AND CULTURE .
I HAVE NEVER OWNED A FERRARI, BUT I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A FAN OF THE BRAND, SINCE I CAN REMEMBER. I HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DRIVE PLENTY OF EXOTIC BEAUTIES THOUGH, AND I STILL BELIEVE THAT NO MATTER HOW FLASHY, SHINY OR MECHANICALLY IMPRESSIVE THEY MAY COME, A FERRARI, ANY FERRARI, WILL REMAIN AN UNDISPUTABLE LEGEND, A TIMELESS PIECE OF ART, DESPITE WHAT THE REST MAY SAY, MAY IT BE BECAUSE OF THEIR PARTICULAR TASTES, (OR LACK OF), FERRARI WAS AT THE RIGHT TIME AT THE RIGHT PLACE IN HISTORY. NO ONE IN HIS RIGHT MIND AND SENSES WOULD ARGUE WITH THAT...

I HAVE BEEN VERY INTERESTED IN THE ENZO STORY, I AGREE THAT THIS IS DEFINETELY MOVIE MATERIAL, AND IT HAPPENED RIGHT IN THE CRADDLE OF THE CINEMATIC UNIVERSE (COINCIDENCE OR KISMET?)
IT HAS BEEN, HOWEVER SOMEWHAT DIFFICULT TO RECEIVE GOOD AND UNTWISTED INFO HERE IN SPAIN UNTIL TODAY, WHEN I HAPPENED TO COME ACROSS YOUR SITE.... MADE EXCLUSIVELY BY FERRARI LOVERS.
EXCEPT FOR A FEW FREAKS AND IGNORANT NUTS, I AM IN AWE OF THE TIGHT UNIT YOU ALL MAKE, I READ ALL 68 PAGES, IVE SPENT A GOOD AMOUNT OF TIME SIX ,SEVEN HOURS NOW, AND LOVED THE FAMILIAR MOOD THAT YOU ALL CONVERSE IN, THE BROTHERLY TONE.
NOWHERE IN THE WORLD I´VE BEEN, DO YOU SEE THAT STRENGHT AND BROTHERSHIP OF SOUL AND SPIRIT BUT IN AMERICA....MAY GOD ALWAYS HOLD YOU IN THE HOLOW OF HIS HAND IS ALL I CAN SAY.

I LIKED PARTICULARLY HOW YOU DEALT WITH THAT "PORSCHA74" GUY.... WHAT AN IGNORANT IMBECILE... BACK IN 97, I HAD FOR A SHORT TIME AN 1983 911, A USE ONED, IN TEXAS, AND I CAN SAY ONE THING, NO MATTER WHAT YOU MAY WANT TO BELIEVE, OR DRIVE, YOU WILL ALWAYS LOOK UP AT A FERRARI AND THINK FRUSTRATED TO YOURSELF: THATS THE ONE I REALLY WANTED. I HAD THE INCREDIBLE LUCK TO HAVE A BOSS THAT LET ME DRIVE A 360 MODENA FROM HOUSTON TO MC ALLEN....SIMPLY PUT, THE BEST RIDE (IN ALL MANNERS OF SPEECH) OF MY LIFE.
I WAS KINDA SCARED AT THE DPS, SO I DIDNT PUSH MY LUCK TO MUCH, BUT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, I JUST LET THE BEAUTY STRETCH ITS LEGS, (SUSTAINED THREE DIGITS SPEEDS, I KNOW, IM GUILTY) BUT SHOW ME SOMEONE WHO COULD RESIST.... THAT FEELING..I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO REPRODUCE IT EVER SINCE...THE SOUND OF THE UNTAMED HORSES AT 4,5,6 THOUSAND RPMs, IS PROBABLY WHAT STRUCK ME MOST.
WHILE IN HOUSTON, I ENJOYED MEETING OTHER FERRARIS, AND EXCHANGING THAT "NOD" OF APPROVAL, LIKE YOU BELONG IN A VERY UNIQUE AND SPECIAL ELITE..HOW COULD YOU COMPARE ANY CAR AND ITS PSYCHE TO IT?

I KNOW TO MOST OF YOU FERRARI OWNERS THIS MAY SOUND CHILDISH, OR EVEN BORING BUT YOU OUGHT TO KNOW THAT FOR THE REST OF THE AVERAGE JOES OUT THERE, (HEY, I GREW UP IN VOLVOS AND VWs) WELL ITS SORTA LIKE SITTING IN A F16, OR IN THE COCKPIT OF THE SPACESHIP, ITS MOSTLY JUST A DREAM.

I AM VERY THANKFUL FOR ALL THE INFO AND THE NEW THINGS I HAVE LEARNED IN YOUR SITE, AND I HOPE TO BE WELCOME IN IT IN THE FUTURE, AS FOR MR ERIKSSON, WELL THE MAN HAD A BEAUTIFUL OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A NEW, GOOD AND DECENT AND EVEN LAVISH LIFE FOR HIMSELF, AND LIKE I LEARNED IN AMERICA, IF YOU F....WITH THE BULL, YOU GET A HORN IN THE ...... NOT TRUE?
I ASK MYSELF, AND IM SURE HE WILL ASK HIMSELF TOO, NOW THAT ALL IS SAID AND DONE WAS ALL THIS WORTH IT.?..
AS MUCH AS MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE MAY NOT COMPREHEND IT, OR EVEN PASS JUDGEMENT, I SHARE THE GRIEF FOR THE ENZO AS MUCH AS MOST OF YOU DO.
IM VERY ANXIOUS TO FIND OUT IF IT CAN INDEED BE REBUILT, (I ALSO AGREE THAT IT WOULD BE A GOOD MOVE FOR FERRARI TO INDEED BRING THAT JEWEL BACK TO LIFE, GIVE IT A SECOND CHANCE, JUST LIKE MR. ERIKSSON AND THE MISTERIOUS DRIVER HAD) AM I OUT OF LINE IN MY THOUGHTS?
THAT MAN IS INMATURE, VAIN, DISHONEST, ARROGANT, TRULU UNDESERVING OF OWNING SUCH BEAUTIES (REMINDS ME OF THE ENRON KIND OF CROWD,) A SHYSTER, A THIEF IN WHITE COLLAR, NOTHELESS A THIEF, AND SOONER OR LATER HE WILL GET HIS... ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME, AND LUCK
THE BRIT WHO SAID THAT ANYONE WOULD TAKE THE OPP. TO SCAM 18 MILL., WELL , ITS APPLES LIKE THAT IN THE BASKET THAT SPREAD THE ROTTEN TO THE GOOD ONES, AM I NOT RIGHT?
FUNNY THING IS, ALL EUROPE WONDERS WHY AMERICA DOES SO WELL...



AGAIN I LEAVE THIS SITE VERY IMPRESSED AND MOVE BY WHAT MOST OF YOU HAVE WRITTEN AND THE WAY EXPRESS YOUR THOUGHTS YOUR IDEAS, YOUR VALUES, YOUR SOUL...
NO WONDER AMERICA IS THE LAND IT IS, DONT LET THIS ESSENCE GET LOST...
THANK YOU ONCE MORE FOR ALLOWING ME TO VISIT YOUR SITE.

SINCERELY DIMITRI
MADRID, SPAIN.

I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO APOLOGIZE FOR MY MISTAKES IN YOUR LANGUAGE.

 

I AM VERY SORRY FOR THAT PIECE OF INFO,
I WROTE THAT SEVERAL HOURS AGO, WHEN I HAD BARELY JOINED THIS GREAT SITE, AND I WAS IN PAGE 5, OR 6, AND THE INFORMATION THAT I HAD, AT LEAST FROM WHAT I HAD HEARD HERE IN SPAIN WAS THAT HE LIVED IN THE YACHT, NO MENTION OF A MANSION.

I REGRET HAVING STUCK MY NOSE IN SOMETHING I WAS NOT SUFFICIENTLY INFORMED, NOW, AFTER READING ALL THIS THREAD, I AM A LOT MORE EDUCATED... LEAVE IT TO INTELLIGENT PEOPLE TO CREATE THESE KIND OF FORUMS...
SORRY AGAIN, AND GREETINGS TO ALL OF YOU WONDERFUL PEOPLE......
DIMITRI

 

Quit yelling.

 

I HAVE NO IDEA HOW IT COMES ACROSS AS YELLING, BUT I FIGURED SOME PEOPLE WOULD REACT LIKE YOU.