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After paying a bond and hearing nothing for weeks, Mr. Moreira said the family was notified in August it could retrieve it from the police department's impound lot at Blue Plains in Southwest D.C. — after the public defender had filed a lawsuit on her behalf.
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"She was really happy and she was real thankful to have it back," said Mr. Moreira, who went to the lot to pick up the car for his mother. "She had lost hope of ever getting the car back."
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