Car dealer wanted sex, not payment, police say

A local auto dealer faces charges after he allegedly offered to exchange sex for car payments with an 18-year-old customer, with his reported indecent proposal caught on tape.

‘He told her he had done this many times,’ said Warren County Sheriff’s Captain Tommy Myers of the arrest of Gene Wilson, owner of Wilson Motors on Sparta Street. ‘It’s all there on tape.’

Wilson was charged after an 18-year-old female customer reported the used car dealer had made unwanted advances toward her, suggesting there was a way he could cut her car payments. Wilson maintains the customer was the one who offered to exchange sexual favors for car payments, however lawmen do not believe his claim.

Specifically, the woman told officers she went in to make a car payment on her car and was met with a suggestion by Wilson that he could offset her payment by $100 if she would participate in a sexual encounter with him. He allegedly offered a lesser credit of $50 for oral sex.

The woman then excused herself from the dealership and reported the proposal to lawmen who set up an undercover sting, first by taping a telephone call between the two in which the woman talked about the offer.

Deputies then wired the woman with a hidden microphone and sent her back to the dealership while monitoring her while watching the car lot.

As lawmen listened, Wilson allegedly gave the woman a $100 receipt and $100 in cash, allegedly in anticipation of the sexual act. The woman then left the lot as officers pulled in to confront Wilson about what had just happened, advising him he would be charged in the near future.

The charge is a misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum 11-month, 29-day sentence. However, such misdemeanors generally receive probation or a few days in jail.