Adams County Vehicle Impound Guide

Wisecup Towing & Recovery dispatches 24 hours a day, but that doesn't mean someone's at the desk to process your release at any hour. The administrative office handling paperwork and payment regularly goes unmanned between noon and 1:30 p.m., and shows up unpredictably even outside that window at a small, owner-operated lot. Call the release line at (937) 544-1390 before you travel to the facility on Ralston Rd to confirm someone's actually there — and get there by 3:30 p.m. at the latest, since arriving at 4:45 for a lot that closes at 5 means getting turned away and owing another full day of storage.

Wandering into the secured storage yard to find your own car without an escort isn't a shortcut — it's criminal trespassing, and it will immediately kill your release regardless of how legitimate your reason was.

Standard ownership rules apply with no flexibility: only the registered owner can retrieve the vehicle, and if your license was confiscated at arrest, you need a second licensed driver physically present to drive it away. If the owner can't appear — incarcerated, out of town — a notarized authorization letter is required; photocopies and digital images are rejected outright.

If this is a second or third OVI triggering court-ordered immobilization, the lot cannot release the vehicle under any circumstances without a formal Journal Entry from the court. Here's a detail unique to this county: because the Clerk of Courts office simultaneously oversees both the criminal docket and the county Title Department, a judge's immobilization order moves through the system with unusual speed — there's no bureaucratic lag between the court ordering it and the title/BMV side executing it the way there can be in larger, more compartmentalized counties.

If you believe the tow itself lacked probable cause, you can dispute it — but the car stays hostage during that fight. Pay the undisputed portion of the bill to get the vehicle released, then file a formal civil complaint separately; once the tow company is served, Ohio law requires release within two business days of that service and payment. And don't forget: you have an absolute right under ORC 4513.61 to retrieve personal items — your wallet, your medication — from the vehicle without paying any fees at all, as long as you can prove ownership, though an after-hours fee can apply if you ask outside normal business hours.