Six months after a Toronto man’s SUV was stolen from his driveway, he knows where it is – more than 6,800 miles away in the Middle East. And he credits Apple AirTags for helping him track it down.

The man, identified only as Andrew, says the moment he realized his 2022 GMC Yukon XL was missing, he pulled out his iPhone and began tracking it – and he watched as the vehicle was driven around Toronto for hours. Two days later, the vehicle turned up inside a shipping container at a rail yard – but police told Andrew there was nothing they could do to get it back, he says. He then tracked it to the Port of Montreal, and then all the way across the ocean in Belgium, he recalls. And finally, the SUV ended up at a used car dealer in the United Arab Emirates near Dubai – 6,800 miles from where it had been stolen, Andrew says.

Weeks after he located the stolen vehicle, it’s still sitting in the Middle East, he says. “We’ve done everything we possibly can, save going over there and trying to take it back ourselves,” Andrew says. “I want my truck back.” When asked about the case, a rep for the Toronto Police Department would only say, “The case is still very active.”

Why couldn’t police do anything when the vehicle was in a shipping container?

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