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Car repair shop owner facing criminal counts

The owner of a Butler car repair shop is facing five criminal counts and three summaries in connection with an alleged fraudulent service job he did in February.

Police charged Patrick T. Rape, 62, of Oakland Township, who owns City Auto Works on West Wayne Street, with two counts each of deceptive business practices and theft by deception and one count of receiving stolen property, all misdemeanors.

He also was cited for three counts of violating motor vehicle code rules and regulations.

According to court documents, a customer Feb. 26 had his pickup truck towed to Rape’s shop after the brakes failed. Police noted the customer was an out-of-towner and never had any service done there before.

The defendant “fraudulently charged (the victim) replacement of 2 brake lines when only 1 brake line was replaced,” a police affidavit said.

Additionally, the affidavit noted the “fraudulent line that wasn’t replaced was claimed to be from the front to the ABS module.”

Of the customer’s $360.40 bill, police said, the fraudulent charged totaled $180.20.

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