February 12, 2025

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Musician AJ Oliveira, takes advantage of ‘Find My’ gadget to identify iPad, track down stolen car or truck and recuperate K worthy of of stolen new music gear

Musician AJ Oliveira, takes advantage of ‘Find My’ gadget to identify iPad, track down stolen car or truck and recuperate $4K worthy of of stolen new music gear

TORRANCE, Calif. — A California person was compelled to get progressive tracking down his stolen auto by pinpointing the spot of his iPad, which was within the auto. He then bombarded new music shops throughout the region right up until he recovered thousands of bucks value of stolen equipment.

AJ Oliveira is from Brazil. He moved to Torrance, California with his pregnant spouse and two little ladies.

Oliveira suggests he’s a musician and performs to make funds for his spouse and children. He arrived with his relatives April 9. 3 days afterwards the unimaginable transpired.

Oliveira says a type buddy was letting him borrow their auto and a guitar so he could start off executing, but that Monday night time, he parked the auto in his apartment’s gated garage just after a gig, and still left the tools in the vehicle so he could set his children to bed upstairs.

He prepared to take the devices out but ended up falling asleep. The following early morning, the vehicle was absent.

The equipment in that car was worth additional than $4,000, in accordance to Oliveira. His wife’s passport, within the car or truck, was also stolen. He instantly referred to as police.

Oliveira reviewed his apartment’s surveillance footage, and uncovered a gentleman and lady who he states stole the car or truck.

Police and Oliveira were striving to find a way to find the vehicle.

“He was like, ‘is there any tracking gadget in the automobile that we can go?’ and I was like, ‘no, there is certainly no monitoring unit that I know of,’ and then I went, ‘oh!’ And it clicked, my iPad was in the car,” Oliveira reported.

Making use of Apple’s “Uncover My” attribute, Oliveira and detectives were ready to keep track of the vehicle’s locale to the metropolis of Lawndale, but his devices was however lacking, no lengthier inside of it.

Oliveira suggests he couldn’t just sit about and wait around, so he referred to as new music shops to warn them that his equipment had been stolen, and that anyone could possibly consider to offer it.

He says that he contacted Guitar Center headquarters where he inquired about his speaker, which he states was value far more than $1,000.

“He was like, ‘well, we have just one but it’s in Lawndale.’ He’s like, ‘you acquired to get in touch with that retail outlet,'” explained Oliveira.

Oliveira referred to as and observed his speaker, which he obtained again, but warned the retail store manager that the suspects may well attempt to appear back and offer the rest of his devices — and which is what transpired.

“Torrance detectives ongoing their investigation to establish the suspect, and have been notified by the Guitar Middle later on that day that a suspect was trying to sell some extra of the stolen musical equipment,” said the Torrance Police Department in a statement to Eyewitness News. “To assist, LASD deputies responded and detained the possible suspect.”

Officers say that on April 13, detectives have been in a position to hook up a detained female suspect to the stolen car incident. Torrance police did not establish the suspect, but mentioned she was booked in jail on Grand Theft and Receiving Stolen Assets costs.

“I feel awful. I sense paranoid,” Oliveira claimed. “I truly feel like it can be a stain in the wonderful graphic that I experienced of the South Bay and Torrance.”

Oliveira’s determination assisted him get well most of his equipment, but his friend’s guitar is however lacking. He is starting up a GoFundMe to increase cash to pay back his good friend again.

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