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SUV stolen from Toronto driveway shows up 50 days later — AirTags tracked vehicle from Canada to Middle East, offering glimpse into shipping routes used by car thieves (www.cbc.ca)

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SUV stolen from Toronto driveway shows up 50 days later — AirTags tracked vehicle from Canada to Middle East, offering glimpse into shipping routes used by car thieves::A Toronto man used location tags to track his stolen GMC Yukon from a rail yard in the GTA to a used car lot in the United Arab Emirates. But despite calls to several police services and the help of a private investigator, he's no closer to getting it back.

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[-] kautau@lemmy.world 135 points 7 months ago

Andrew received a picture taken from inside a police car, parked near two containers sitting on a railcar. "It's definitely in one of those containers," the officer said in a series of text messages viewed by CBC News. But the York officer said they didn't "have the authority to open the containers." Instead, they directed Andrew to the railway's private police service.

Andrew said CPKC police didn't respond to the scene that night and the train carrying his truck took off soon after. "That's the pinnacle of the frustration," Andrew told CBC, "knowing that it's still here, but it's about to disappear."

CPKC spokesperson Terry Cunha declined to discuss the incident, but said in a statement the railway "works with federal, provincial and local law enforcement agencies executing a number of strategies to identify and recover stolen vehicles."

Someone’s palms are real greasy here

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 65 points 7 months ago

"Wait, you expect us to actually do our job :( "

It's a PRIVATE police service, the PUBLIC police force shouldn't have to ask anything from them and should be laughing in their face as they're opening containers.

[-] SomeKindaName@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They should need to get a warrant, but that doesn't sound too hard in this instance.

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Yep and judges don't work nights. Nothing for the police to do in this instance except wait for the next day... And then it was gone.

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