LAS VEGAS ( KLAS ) — Danielle Brissett sat in jail for six days in August of 2023 after being arrested in front of her children. It happened after Enterprise Rent-A-Car reported the Kia Sedona she rented in 2016 was stolen.
Now Brissett is suing the car rental company.
“It was horrible, it was degrading, it was depressing,” Brissett said. “I felt intimated. I was surrounded by a number of police officers and I had two my children with me, my 1-year-old and 15-year-old son.”
According to the lawsuit she had rented the vehicle on Oct. 3, 2016, to move her family from Las Vegas to Pittsburgh. But on Oct. 9, 2016, she called to extend her rental until Nov. 1, 2016.
According to the lawsuit, an employee of Enterprise Rent-A-Car named Doug told her to return it by the new date and put the keys under the front seat. She did just that and returned the rental on Oct. 31, 2016, a day before the rental was up.
That didn’t stop a criminal complaint being filed in Nevada on Dec. 9, 2016, alleging a felony charge against her for embezzling a rental vehicle on Aug. 5, 2016, which was more than two months before she even had rented it.