Embattled Towing Company Finally Coughs Up Couple's Car

(CBS) -- A CBS 2 Original Report gets results.

Last week, reporter Dana Kozlov told you about a couple's car towed away. Despite a sheriff's visit, a state's attorney investigation and a judge's order, 360 Recovery would not give it back.

Until Thursday.

A towing company employee was none too happy to see a CBS 2 camera outside the Blue Island lot.

That's when Ellis Douglas and his girlfriend, Iesha Rankin, and their attorney, Phyllis Price, got their car back -- six months after 360 Recovery towed it and then refused to return it, despite a judge's order.

Their ordeal began in February, when the couple's new, parked car was towed without their knowledge two days after being hit. Months passed. When sheriff's deputies finally got the judge's order and went with them in May to retrieve it, they learned the car had been moved to another location.

It hadn't been seen since. But soon after the CBS 2 story aired, a company representative called Price, the attorney, to make arrangements.

Yet all does not end well. Price says the car appears to have further damage.

And 360 Recovery is in more trouble. The Cook County's state's attorney just slapped it with a contempt petition and consumer fraud lawsuit. The lawsuit states the state revoked the company's tow license in May.

That's on top of a court injunction banning the property from being used as a tow lot at all until 2017.

"There are at least dozens of vehicles here, so it is violating that injunction," Price says.

Owners could not be reached for comment Thursday.