Buying a used car from a national chain is supposed to take the edge off the process. You skip sketchy meetups, the vague stories, the parking lot test drives with crossed fingers. You go somewhere like CarMax because the cars are vetted, the paperwork is handled, and the risk is lower. At least that’s the idea.
For a woman in Garner, North Carolina, that assumption unraveled after she drove home in her 2019 Infiniti Q50 Luxe.
According to Raleigh police, the sedan she bought through CarMax had actually been reported stolen about five years earlier. By the time law enforcement caught up to the car, she was left without the vehicle and out thousands of dollars.
The CarMax case surfaced through a broader investigation
Search warrants released in Wake County show that an officer with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Florida contacted Raleigh police…