The license plate on the car Bryant was driving should be listed on any court documents (criminal complaints, citations, etc.). These documents are public record. If the car he was driving is registered in the state of WV (unlikely since he's from NY), one could simply go to the WV DMV and pay a small fee for a registration check on said WV license plate and get the registered owner and title number. With the title number, one could get any lien holder on the car.
If as I think, that his Charger is registered in the state of NY, any inquiry into the ownership of the car would have to be done up there.
In other areas of the country, the local media would be all over this and would look into the ownership of a really new car like that. If he'd been driving a 10+ year old car regardless of the condition, most of us wouldn't car since that's probably what a lot of us were driving while in college. But a 2008 Charger? Even if it's the 6 cyl & not he Hemi, that's at LEAST a $20K-$25K car when new.
For the record, while at MU from 84-88, I first drove a 1975 Buick LeSabre with peeling gray paint. Then in 1987, I got my sister's old Chev Cavalier wagon (either 82 or 83 model). I thought I was hot stuff driving a car made in the same decade I was living in.