committed suicide, setting his house on fire as you saw last month. arthel: anna, sad story on so many levels. thank you for that report. rick: switching gears now, new studies giving an interesting look into american s changing habit in the wake of the recession. more people are now paying off their car loans before making payments on their credit card debt or even their mortgages. a traditional american status symbol, the car, may no longer be a priority for teen-agers and young adults, signs of a generational shift or lousy economy still at work? patricia powell is ceo of powell financial group and joins us now. always nice to have you. thanks for coming in. two topics. let s talk about the car loans. what do you make of this study that people are paying off their car loans? i guess it s easier to have your car repossessed than anything else. 90 days. if you re delinquent 90 days, you re car is gone. on the other hand, if you stop paying your mortgage, it takes years to forecl
criminals caught in the undercover sting operations by the las vegas police department. going into my interviews, i never knew what i was going to get. surely some lied to me and i knew it. but others decided to really open up. when i talked with chevy, a woman arrested for selling cars and guns in the sting, it quickly becomes clear that she s willing to share the intimate details of her life. providing us with a rare glimpse into the mind of a career criminal. hey, cheryl. hi. chris hanson. i m with dateline nbc, how are you? fine. would you like to have a seat? i wanted to ask you a couple questions about an investigation we re doing a story on. it s a wide-ranging story about a bunch of different investigations that have been conducted here in the las vegas area. one of them was a storefront fencing operation. where people showed up and sold stolen cars, stolen guns,
world news now delivers your morning papers. it is time now for the morning papers. and the daily mail never lets us down. this woman that they have a story on is a woman after my own heart. i love this. she went shopping with another man and her, well her husband or boyfriend or whatever and their child. she goes into the store apparently had a real hankering for guinness. a case of guinness. check this out. she takes a case of guinness beer. a case. here we go. up the dress. and like nothing happened. she just walks away. i am so impressed by this. suzanne somers you have done your work, sweetheart. she s definitely used the thighmaster.
how are you? fine. would you like to have a seat? i wanted to ask you a couple questions about an investigation we re doing a story on. it s a wide-ranging story about a bunch of different investigations that have been conducted here in the las vegas area. one of them was a storefront fencing operation. where people showed up and sold stolen cars, stolen guns, counterfeit money, all kinds of things. and you turned up in this storefront. do you remember anything about that? can you explain any of that to me? no. okay. can i show you a videotape that i think you might like to see? sure. okay. this when i m on vacation. do you know anything about that? yeah. now, what were you talking about there, cheryl? i d rather not comment. have you ever been in prison
remember cheryl miller nicknamed cheffie, she came into the storefront for selling stolen cars and like rusty, doesn t know she was caught in a police sting. hey, cheryl? hi. chris hansen. i m with dateline nbc. have a seat. not really, but if i have to. you don t have to do anything. trust me, you don t have to do anything. i want to ask you questions about an investigation that we re doing a story on. can i show you a videotape you might want to see? it doesn t take long for cheryl to realize she s in trouble. did you think it might have been an undercover investigation? i did. i did. did you help sell five vehicles? yes. so you are part of the deals. yes. well, i just brought people there to do that. you were the middleman. yes. so to speak. so you had people that had