Two weeks after he first tried to con us out of parking money 11 News encountered Dedrick Addison again. This time he was busted by undercover officers with fake parking vouchers in his pocket.

Police though expect to see him again.

“Within two weeks, they're back at it again doing the same thing,” said Officer Richard Arriaga of HPD’s special operations unit.

Fake parking lot attendants like Addison are a thorn in the side of parking lot owners. Even more of a pain for customers like Scott Borst who said he paid someone he thought was an attendant in a Central Parking System lot. 

Thirty minutes later when he came out?

“I found boots on my car and had to pay a $100 to get the boots off.” Borst complained. “That's ridiculous for a $3 parking spot.”

The car had been booted by Premier Parking Enforcement. Those bootings may also be another growing problem for downtown motorists.

A few blocks away 11 News encountered a man who apparently contracts for the company in a dispute over another booting. He did not want to talk on camera, but the man whose car was being booted was willing to talk.

“Right now it's his word against mine,” the customer said.

Turns out, the address listed for Premier Parking enforcement is a climate controlled storage facility on Louisiana in downtown Houston.

When 11 News tried to call the number posted on the parking enforcement vehicle, we reached a dispatcher in South Carolina. He asked for our state, as well as the make and model of our vehicle, but when pressed, he said he did not really know that much about how the company works.

Central said it's been contracting with Premier Parking Enforcement for its Houston lots since the beginning of May.

While it once used to only boot repeat offenders like most lots here, it's now using Premier to go after first time offenders as well.

Which could be a problem for Shannon Bledsoe who was putting her money in the parking lot box like she's supposed to. A box that's already been forced wide open.

“I'm paying my money. Going it in good faith,” she said.

Good faith and a roll of the dice.