A woman who was arrested after she rented a car and didn’t return it for weeks lost her claim that the rental company should pay damages for her three-day stay behind bars when a jury returned a defense verdict.

“She admitted she kept the car longer than she was supposed to, and she acknowledged that she owed a little money,” said Enterprise Leasing’s attorney, Cruser & Mitchell partner J. Robb Cruser. “We never even wanted the money. Our position was that she got free use of the vehicle. … We never even filed a counterclaim — all we ever wanted was to get our car back.”

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