UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                  SCHEDULE 13D

                    UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
                                (AMENDMENT NO.5)*

                        Consumer Portfolio Services, Inc.
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                                (Name of Issuer)

                                  Common Stock
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                         (Title of Class of Securities)

                                   210502 100
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                                 (CUSIP Number)

   Charles E. Bradley, Sr.; c/o Stanwich Partners, Inc., 62 Southfield Avenue,
        One Stamford Landing, Stamford, Connecticut 06902; (203) 325-0551
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       (Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive
                          Notices and Communications)

                                 March 14, 2002
             (Date of Event which Requires Filing of this Statement)

If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report
the acquisition which is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this
schedule because of ss.ss.240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the
following box |_|.

NOTE: Schedules filed in paper format shall include a signed original and five
copies of the schedule, including all exhibits. Seess.240.13d-7(b) for other
parties to whom copies are to be sent.

* The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person's
initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and
for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter
disclosures provided in a prior cover page.

The information required on the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed
to be "filed" for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 ("Act") or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act
but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see the
Notes).

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                                  SCHEDULE 13D
                                 AMENDMENT NO. 4

CUSIP NO.   210502 100                                         PAGE 2 OF 6 PAGES

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1         NAME OF REPORTING PERSON
          I.R.S IDENTIFICATION NO. OF ABOVE PERSON (ENTITIES ONLY)

          Charles E. Bradley, Sr.
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2         CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP*
                                                                      (a)|_|
                                                                      (b)|X|
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3         SEC USE ONLY

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4         SOURCE OF FUNDS
                                 Not Applicable
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5         CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT
          TO ITEMS 2(d) or 2(e)                                          |_|

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6         CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION

          United States of America
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                            7       SOLE VOTING POWER
     NUMBER OF
       SHARES                                             23,738
    BENEFICIALLY            ------ ---------------------------------------------
      OWNED BY              8       SHARED VOTING POWER
   EACH REPORTING
      PERSON                                              697,791
       WITH                 ------ ---------------------------------------------
                            9      SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER

                                                          6,738
                            ------ ---------------------------------------------
                            10      SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER

                                                          -0-
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11        AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON

                                    3,004,867
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12        CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES*

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13        PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11)

                                      15.6%
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14        TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON*
          IN
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                      *SEE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE FILLING OUT!
            INCLUDE BOTH SIDES OF COVER PAGE, RESPONSES TO ITEMS 1-7
       (INCLUDING EXHIBITS) OF THE SCHEDULE AND THE SIGNATURE ATTESTATION

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ITEM 1.  SECURITY AND ISSUER.

                  This filing relates to the common stock (the "COMMON STOCK")
                  of the following issuer (the "ISSUER"):

                            Consumer Portfolio Services, Inc.
                            16355 Laguna Canyon Road
                            Irvine, California 92618

                  The Issuer is a California corporation.

ITEM 2.  IDENTITY AND BACKGROUND

                  (a)      Name of person filing this statement:

                           The name of the person filing this report is Charles
                           E. Bradley, Sr. (the "REPORTING PERSON").

                  (b)      Business address:

                           c/o Stanwich Partners, Inc.
                           62 Southfield Avenue
                           One Stamford Landing
                           Stamford, CT 06902

                  (c)      Present principal occupation:

                           President of Stanwich Partners, Inc., an investment
                           and business consulting firm; Chairman of the Board
                           of Reunion Industries, Inc., a diversified
                           manufacturing company; and President of Stanwich
                           Financial Services Corp., which is engaged in the
                           structured settlement and investment business.

                  (d)      Not applicable.

                  (e)      Not applicable.

                  (f)      Citizenship - United States of America.

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ITEM 3.  SOURCE AND AMOUNT OF FUNDS OR OTHER CONSIDERATION

                           Not applicable. No shares were acquired.

  ITEM 4.PURPOSE OF THE TRANSACTION.

                           Sovereign Bank, as pledgee, sold the following shares
                  of Common Stock that were owned by the reporting person and
                  pledged to it or in which it had otherwise had a lien: 4,600
                  shares in August 2001 and 572,200 shares during the period
                  from February 7, 2002 through April 12, 2002. The aggregate
                  net proceeds from these sales ($946,117) were applied to the
                  reduction of the reporting person's indebtedness to such bank

                           None of subparts (a) through (j) of Item 4 is
                  applicable, except that (i) with respect to subpart (a),
                  shares of the Issuer's Common Stock will be issuable to
                  Stanwich Financial Services Corp. ("SFSC") if SFSC exercises
                  the conversion rights described in Item 5, below and (ii) with
                  respect to subpart (a), the reporting person may buy and sell
                  shares of Common Stock in the future. The reporting person has
                  pledged 1,002,800 additional shares of Common Stock to
                  Sovereign Bank to secure the repayment of a loan. Such loan is
                  past due. Sovereign Bank may sell or require him to sell some
                  or all of such pledged shares over time and apply the proceeds
                  therefrom to the repayment of such loan.

ITEM 5.  INTEREST IN SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER.

                           (a) The reporting person beneficially owns or may be
                  deemed to own an aggregate of 3,004,867 shares of the Issuer's
                  Common Stock (the "BENEFICIALLY OWNED SHARES"). The
                  Beneficially Owned Shares constitute 15.6% the issued and
                  outstanding shares of such Common Stock.

                           (b) Number of shares as to which the reporting person
                  has:

                               (i)     sole power to vote or to direct
                                       the vote:                          23,738

                               (ii)    shared power to vote or to direct
                                       the vote:                         697,791

                               (iii)   sole power to dispose or to direct
                                       the disposition of:                 6,738

                               (iv)    shared power to dispose or direct
                                       the disposition of:                   -0-

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                           Of the Beneficially Owned Shares, 207,490 shares are
                  owned by the reporting person's spouse. He has no voting or
                  dispositive power as to these shares. The Beneficially Owned
                  Shares include 646,959 shares that are owned by SFSC and
                  50,832 shares that are owned by Stanwich Partners, Inc.
                  ("SPI"). The reporting person is the President, the sole
                  director and the sole stockholder of SFSC. The reporting
                  person is the President, director and the owner of a majority
                  of the outstanding shares of the voting stock of SPI. Because
                  of these relationships, for purposes of Regulation 13D, the
                  reporting person may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of
                  the shares of Common Stock and other securities owned by SFSC
                  and SPI.

                           In addition, SFSC is the holder of seven partially
                  convertible subordinated notes (the "1997 CONVERTIBLE NOTES")
                  in the aggregate principal amount of $15,000,000 issued by the
                  Issuer to SFSC as of June 12, 1997. SFSC has the right to
                  convert an aggregate of $3,000,000 of the principal of the
                  1997 Convertible Notes into 252,949 of Common Stock (a
                  conversion price of $11.86 per share) on June 12, 2004 (the
                  maturity date of such notes) or, if earlier, the date on which
                  such notes are prepaid. The shares subject to the conversion
                  rights under the 1997 Convertible Notes are not included in
                  the Beneficially Owned Shares because such rights are not
                  exercisable within 60 days of the date of this Amendment.

                           (c) No transactions in the Common Stock were effected
                  in the past 60 days by the reporting person, except as
                  described in this filing.

                           (d) Certain of the Beneficially Owned Shares are
                  pledged, as described in Item 6, below. Under the terms of
                  such pledges, upon the occurrence of a default thereunder, the
                  pledgees have the right to receive dividends on, and the
                  proceeds from the sale of, such pledged shares (but not more
                  than the amount of debt secured by such pledges).

                           (e) Not applicable.

ITEM 6.  CONTRACTS, ARRANGEMENTS, UNDERSTANDINGS OR RELATIONSHIPS WITH
         RESPECT TO SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER

                           Certain of the Beneficially Owned Shares are pledged,
                  as described in this Item. The reporting person has pledged
                  1,002,800 shares of Common Stock to Sovereign Bank to secure a
                  loan to him. He has also pledged 1,073,048 shares of Common
                  Stock to PNC Capital Corp. and Bank One Capital Partners
                  Corporation (collectively, "PNC/BOCP") to secure a loan to
                  DeVlieg-Bullard, Inc. SFSC, SPI and the reporting person have
                  pledged 543,459 shares, 50,832 shares and 17,000 shares,

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                  respectively, of Common Stock to Bank of America, N.A., for
                  itself and as agent for certain other lenders, ("B OF A") to
                  secure a loan to Reunion Industries, Inc. SFSC has also
                  pledged 103,500 shares of Common Stock to the law firm of
                  Lurie, Zepeda, Schmalz & Hogan ("LZS&H") to secure the payment
                  of legal fees incurred in connection with certain pending
                  litigation. Because defaults have occurred under the
                  applicable documents governing the pledges, (i) each of
                  Sovereign Bank and PNC/BOCP has the right to vote the shares
                  pledged to it and (ii) B of A will have the right to vote the
                  shares pledged to it, if it gives the pledgors thereof written
                  notice of the default and of its intention to exercise the
                  voting rights. LZS&H does not have voting rights with respect
                  to the shares pledged to it.

ITEM 7.  MATERIAL TO BE FILED AS EXHIBITS.

                  None

SIGNATURE

                         After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my
                knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth
                in this statement is true, complete and correct.

April 19, 2002                                /s/ Charles E. Bradley, Sr.
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                                              Name: Charles E. Bradley, Sr.

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