The owner of two Charlotte towing companies has agreed to pay what prosecutors called his racially-targeted victims a total of $30,000 for booting and towing their trucks and price-gouging them during the pandemic, N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced this week.
In 2020, the N.C. Department of Justice sued David Jewel Satterfield and his Charlotte-based companies, A1 Towing Solutions Inc. and Automobile Recovery and Parking Enforcement Inc. They were accused of booting trucks owned by Black drivers in majority-Black areas of Charlotte, Jackson said in a news release by the N.C. Department of Justice.
Drivers were delivering food, water and other medical supplies, only to be charged up to $4,000 to release locks placed on their trucks, according to the department…