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A drug dealer in a Bentley? Seems unlikely.

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The paper towels absorbed a lot of the mud....

What impresses me about this is that a Bentley can travel 200' under water through river mud. Good car.

I wonder if this is the same Buddy Love that I have heard is a big drug dealer in the Heights and Hoboken.

I saw a Bentley matching this guy's description about a year ago around there. Is that him?

Maybe your comments are tongue in cheek...not sure. Either way, nobody is "bothering" this guy....he tried to return one of his ridiculous cars b/c he couldn't afford the payments any more. When they wouldn't take it back, he tried to scam his insurance company.

I am pretty sure that Bentley has a very good Service department...if something was really wrong with the car, they would have fixed it. We are not talking about a cheap hunk of junk here...

Furthermore....I have seen this guy around my neighborhood many times....I have heard from the old timers here that he did some time in jail for "accidentally" killing someone by hitting 'em in the head with an object -- from behind. Ooops.

So I am inclined to think it was not an accident that the gas pedal was pinned down and the brake pedal was pinned up.

bothering?

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Same guy. He has/had a bunch of other top end cars. Nearly all are white/cream with "Ben Love" emblazoned across the windshield.

..."benny love"

I've seen a brand new cream-colored Bentley around downtown, I wonder if that was it (I figured it must've been Charles Epps' sweet civil servant ride)

Grand jury indicts for fraud
Saturday, June 14, 2008
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A Bergen County man who told police his $230,000 Bentley rolled down the Liberty State Park boat ramp into New York Bay was indicted this week by a Hudson County grand jury for insurance fraud, officials said.

Benny Love, 35, of Little Ferry, could face five to 10 years in prison and be ordered to pay $175,000 in restitution if convicted on the charges in the indictment signed by a judge Tuesday afternoon, Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Michael Zevits said yesterday.

Love, aka "Benny Rivera" has not been arrested, but is expected to surrender shortly, Zevits said.

Love's attorney, Daniel Welsh of Jersey City, said his client did nothing wrong.

"He is an innocent man and he looks forward to the opportunity to vindicate himself in court," Welsh said yesterday.

Zevits said Love owned the Bentley Arnage for about a year and a half in September 2007 and was having a lot of trouble with it. The dealer would not take it back because Love still owed $175,000 on it and that was more than the car was worth at the time, Zevits said.

That September he called police and told them he parked the car at the boat ramp and it rolled away. He said his camera strap hooked the gear shifter and pulled it into neutral and he managed to jump out as it rolled away, Zevits said.

Cops found the car 200 feet from the water's edge and when they towed it out, they found paper towels jammed under the break pedal and the car mat was on top of the accelerator, Zevits said.

An expert found that the camera strap could not easily have snagged the shifter and if the shifter was tugged while Love was getting out of the car, it would have been pulled in the wrong direction, Zevits said. It was also determined that if the car rolled down the ramp, it would not have been so far from shore, Zevits said.

Zevits added the trial will likely begin early next year.