A used car salesman at Great Buys Auto Sales in Lower Sackville will be heading to trial on a charge of fraud over $5,000 in connection with the sale of a vehicle to a young couple.

On Wednesday, a judge ordered Darren Blumenthal to stand trial following a preliminary hearing in Dartmouth provincial court. Details of that hearing are banned from publication.

He faces three charges related to a 2013 Subaru BRZ that Melanie Pottie and Chris Bezanson purchased in August 2015 for $24,500.

The couple have previously told CBC News Blumenthal agreed to buy back the car if their circumstances changed.

Melanie Pottie and Chris Bezanson purchased a 2013 Subaru BRZ in August 2015. (CBC)

After Bezanson lost his job, they returned to Great Buys. They said Blumenthal agreed to buy back the car and pay off their bank loans if they gave him another $11,500 to cover taxes and extra costs.

Court documents allege Blumenthal wrote a cheque to the bank, but it bounced, leaving the couple on the hook for over $33,000.

Blumenthal told CBC News last June that he did nothing wrong.

Other legal problems

Blumenthal has elected to be tried by judge alone. The case will be heard in Nova Scotia Supreme Court but no date has yet been set.

Blumenthal is facing other legal problems, as well.

Court documents show Blumenthal and his wife, Rebecca, defaulted on $600,000 to Nextgear Capital Corporation.

The company alleges the Blumenthals "absconded with a number of motor vehicles" after they were notified Nextgear was taking action against them.

There is a permanent Nova Scotia Supreme Court order requiring the couple to disclose the location of those vehicles.

One of at least 19 vehicles that were repossessed from Great Buys Auto on Sackville Drive in Lower Sackville on April 19. (CBC)

On April 19, a repossession company removed at least 19 vehicles from the Great Buys lot on Sackville Drive, leaving it virtually empty.

At the time, the owner of the repossession company said it was trying to locate at least another 30 vehicles that "have gone missing in the past 72 hours."