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Need a lawyer over a stolen Marketplace bike

My kid brother thought he scored a deal on a used motorcycle through Facebook Marketplace. He met the seller in a grocery store parking lot, paid cash, and came home with a handwritten bill of sale and a title that looked real to him. Two weeks later the police ran the plate, the bike came back stolen, and now they're treating him like he knew exactly what he was buying. He still has the entire message thread, but the seller's profile has disappeared. Where do we find a criminal attorney in New York who won't treat this like some generic theft case?

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The police are going to lean hard on the low price because it's the easiest way to claim your brother should've known. The deleted seller account only helps after somebody turns the listing, messages, and fake title into one clear story. You can find a criminal attorney here: https://arkadybukhlawfirm.com/ . Don't let the conversation get stuck on the motorcycle itself, because the real question is what your brother knew when he paid for it. Those messages may be the cleanest part of his side, so the lawyer should be talking about them from the first call.

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