Stefan Eriksson just can’t catch a break. The beleaguered Ex-Gizmondo boss has run into another spot of bother, as Beverly Hills police Sunday confiscated his Mercedes SLR. Officers pulled the car, driven by Eriksson’s wife, over Sunday after its European license plates caught their eye. They then found that Eriksson’s wife didn’t have a drivers’ license, nor was the car actually registered in the US.
This, of course, is the SLR that Scotland Yard had said earlier was stolen — at the same time it was reported that the ill-fated Enzo may have been exported to the US in an attempt to keep it from being repossessed. I’m no criminal genius, but I’d think that after all the attention this case has gotten, it would probably be best not to be driving around an unregistered $400,000 car without a driver’s license. But hey, that’s just me.
Spong reports that Eriksson is expected to face deportation proceedings should he be hit with charges of DWI and filing a false police report.
(Photo from 13-year-old car buff Spyder Dobrofsky, who happened to be at the scene)
[tags]gizmondo, eriksson, enzo, slr[/tags]
[...] Thanks to Brian for sending in the latest update to the ever-bizarre Stefan Eriksson story: that he was arrested Saturday night on suspicion of grand theft, and is being held without bail. The LA Times is reporting that sheriff’s deputies believe the red Ferrari Enzo Eriksson so spectacularly crashed, along with a black Enzo as well as a “rare Mercedes” (I’m guessing the one his wife was driving without a license that got confiscated a couple weeks ago) are owned by British financial institutions, and that Eriksson had stopped making payments on them. [...]