The American Repossessor

SOUTH BEND — A 39-year-old South Bend man who works as a repossession agent told police a man drew a gun on him early today as he was trying to repossess a pickup truck.

Police were called to the agent’s home this morning. The man told officers that at about 4:10 a.m. he went to a house in the 400 block of South Pulaski Street to request overdue payments or to repossess the vehicle, a 1993 Ford F250 pickup, on behalf of an auto sales lot.

The buyer of the vehicle has not been making the required payments, the agent told police.

An unknown man opened the door at the house, and the agent told him he had to either make the payments or lose the vehicle, police said. The man in the house pointed a pistol at the agent’s face, told him he wouldn’t let him take the truck and ran out of the house, according to a police report.

The man got in the vehicle and drove away, police said. The agent and a co-worker followed him north on Olive Street to Lincoln Way West, where they lost sight of the pickup, police said.

It is unclear whether the man who pulled the pistol is the same man who owes money on the truck.