Need some help in my criminal thinking

[T Bell]

As my signature still reads, I took my car to a body shop to get the dents pulled and whole car primered. The car was taken to his house instead of his shop. Well, after two years of chasing this guy, and him giving me the run around about my car being almost finished, I got him on the phone and he says the car is finished and I should pick it up. He says it's at his new shop. I call him the next day to look at it and nothing. He's not even at the shop. I went by his house and lo and behold my car is still in the backyard in the same spot, with no work done to it at all. I take pictures with my camera so I can have the date imprinted on the pics. This was two weeks ago. I haven't said anything to him about it because I'm still wondering what I can l legally do. I popped up at his new shop today and he was there but my car wasn't there (obviously, I'm just playing along now). He feeds me some line about my car had to be moved last Friday and he put it in storage. I ask why didn't he bring it to me or call me. Of course he says he did call me. He also tells me that him and his wife are splitting up and he may need me to help him move his stuff from the house. (Crazy I know). Then he asks if I want to sell the car. He says he knows a guy that really wants it bad. WTF!!!!!!!! I've talked to a police friend of mine and he said that there isn't any real legal action that I can take right now because the guy hasn't really done anything wrong. I could file a stolen vehicle report but I want to get my money back as well. I don't want to tip the guy off and let him know that I know my car is in his backyard because I don't want him to hide the car and then tell me someone stole it. Any suggestions? Guys with shops, if I have a receipt were I paid him to get started and that business is no longer in operation, what legal action can I take? Sorry for long winded post but I tried not to leave out any stupid things.