On June 4, 2010, Swanson called authorities and asked them to send a deputy to a Plainfield auto-restoration shop, the complaint said. Swanson was dropping off $12,000 to take possession of his 1975 Trans Am, but he had been in a heated dispute with a shop manager who he believed kept raising the price of the work unreasonably, increasing it from $16,500 to more than $30,000.