Toronto man unknowingly buys stolen $60,000 truck from dealership

A Toronto man says he bought a truck from a dealership last summer that turned out to be stolen.

A Toronto man says he purchased a 2020 Ford F-150 truck from a dealership last summer that turned out to be stolen.

"I would never have expected to have bought a stolen vehicle from a large car dealership,” Derek Crocker told CTV News Toronto.

Crocker said he bought the truck from a Mazda dealership in the Toronto area for about $60,000 last June.

Six months later, he got into an accident. When the truck was being repaired at the body shop, Crocker said the wrong replacement parts were constantly being ordered.

"When they ordered parts using the vehicle identification number (VIN), the bumper was coming back chrome instead of black and the grill chrome instead of black. Things weren't lining up," he said.

That’s when Crocker did a Google search using his VIN, and found another truck in the United States that had the exact same number.

"I found another truck with that VIN in Utah for sale, and it had the same VIN as my truck,” Crocker said.