Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
On July 17, 2001, the petitioner purchased a 1985 General Motors flatbed truck for $12,000. Two days later, the Suffolk County Police Department (hereinafter the Police Department) seized the vehicle pursuant to Vehicle and Traffic Law § 423-a, which permits a local police department to take such action "if any original [vehicle] identification number * * * is destroyed, removed, altered, defaced or so covered...
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