Torrance musician, AJ Oliveira, uses iPad locator to track down stolen car and recover $4,000 worth of stolen music gear

TORRANCE, Calif. (KABC) — A Torrance male was pressured to get revolutionary monitoring down his stolen car by pinpointing the place of his iPad, which was inside of the vehicle. He then bombarded new music retailers throughout the area until eventually he recovered thousands of pounds well worth of stolen equipment.

AJ Oliveira is from Brazil. He moved to Torrance with his expecting spouse and two minimal ladies.

Oliveira says he’s a musician and performs to make money for his family. He arrived with his household April 9. Three days later on the unimaginable took place.

Oliveira suggests a variety good friend was allowing him borrow their automobile and a guitar so he could commence accomplishing, but that Monday evening, he parked the motor vehicle in his apartment’s gated garage just after a gig, and remaining the products in the motor vehicle so he could put his little ones to bed upstairs.

He prepared to take the equipment out but ended up falling asleep. The subsequent early morning, the vehicle was long gone.

The devices in that car or truck was worthy of extra than $4,000, in accordance to Oliveira. His wife’s passport, inside the car, was also stolen. He straight away referred to as law enforcement.

Oliveira reviewed his apartment’s surveillance footage, and located a person and woman who he states stole the car or truck.

Law enforcement and Oliveira ended up striving to discover a way to identify the car or truck.

“He was like, ‘is there any tracking machine in the auto that we can go?’ and I was like, ‘no, there is no tracking system that I know of,’ and then I went, ‘oh!’ And it clicked, my iPad was in the car,” Oliveira claimed.

Using Apple’s “Uncover My” attribute, Oliveira and detectives ended up equipped to track the vehicle’s location to the town of Lawndale, but his machines was continue to lacking, no for a longer period inside of it.

Oliveira says he could not just sit around and wait, so he termed tunes stores to alert them that his devices experienced been stolen, and that another person may try to market it.

He states that he contacted Guitar Centre headquarters wherever he inquired about his speaker, which he states was value additional than $1,000.

“He was like, ‘well, we have a person but it can be in Lawndale.’ He is like, ‘you got to simply call that keep,'” mentioned Oliveira.

Oliveira identified as and uncovered his speaker, which he obtained again, but warned the retail store manager that the suspects may well try to appear again and sell the relaxation of his equipment — and which is what transpired.

“Torrance detectives continued their investigation to establish the suspect, and were notified by the Guitar Centre afterwards that day that a suspect was trying to offer some extra of the stolen musical equipment,” reported the Torrance Police Office in a assertion to Eyewitness News. “To assist, LASD deputies responded and detained the achievable suspect.”

Officials say that on April 13, detectives were in a position to connect a detained feminine suspect to the stolen car incident. Torrance police did not discover the suspect, but claimed she was booked in jail on Grand Theft and Receiving Stolen House rates.

“I come to feel terrible. I come to feel paranoid,” Oliveira claimed. “I come to feel like it can be a stain in the lovely image that I experienced of the South Bay and Torrance.”

Oliveira’s dedication aided him recuperate most of his gear, but his friend’s guitar is still lacking. He is beginning a GoFundMe to increase funds to pay out his mate again.

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