Officer Todd Parmentier leaves a elderly disabled couple on the street at 3am, tows their car over insurance mistake [View all]

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May 26, 2026
Hinesville, GA
A 3 A.M. Tow on Highway 196 and the Statute Hinesville Police Didn't Fully Quote
Hinesville Police Department defended Officer Todd Parmentier's late-night traffic stop and tow of a disabled veteran and her amputee husband by invoking Georgia's insurance verification law. A review of the statute and the body camera footage finds that the same Code section contains protections the department's public statement does not address.

n April, a Hinesville police officer towed a vehicle off Highway 196 and left a 71-year-old disabled Army veteran and her amputee husband on the side of the road at three in the morning. The reason was a state-database flag that said the vehicle had no insurance. The driver showed him proof it did. On his own body camera, the officer acknowledged the database was wrong about the vehicle. He towed the car anyway.

The Stop
At approximately 2:36 a.m. on April 27, 2026, Hinesville Police Officer Todd Parmentier ran the license plate of a vehicle traveling on Highway 196 in Hinesville, Georgia. The Georgia Crime Information Center database returned a flag for no insurance on the vehicle. Parmentier initiated a traffic stop.

Mrs. Mobley-Sadler told Parmentier she had active coverage through USAA. She offered to show him the policy on her phone and produced her vehicle registration. Parmentier declined to consider either. According to the body-worn camera footage the department released two weeks later, his stated reason was as follows:

We have to go by what the state says and our system says. And our system in the state of Georgia says you do not have insurance.

Within minutes, Parmentier told the couple a tow truck was already en route. He had not yet examined the documentation Mrs. Mobley-Sadler was offering.

The Tow
Parmentier helped Bobby Sims out of the passenger seat and onto his rollator. Mrs. Mobley-Sadler had told Parmentier her husband was an amputee who could not walk under his own power and that she needed to get him home for two morning medical appointments, an 8 a.m. doctor visit and a 9:30 a.m. telehealth appointment, plus a prosthetic-leg fitting at a Hanger Clinic location.

When Mrs. Mobley-Sadler asked how she and her husband were supposed to get home, Parmentier said this:

This is your opportunity to have somebody to call somebody to come get you a ride, Lyft, Uber, something.

The vehicle was loaded onto a tow truck. Parmentier departed the scene. The couple was left in the parking lot