Car Value & VIN Question

If you have a friend that works at a car dealership, they should be able to run vin, my sister -in-law, works at a dodge dealership and she ran the vin on a car for me, the DMV wanted to know why, she said its an out of state car and we are taking it in on trade, not only did she get town and city of last owner,even got licence plate number and last date titled.