Volkswagen Finance contacted the Orange County Auto Theft Taskforce after discovering that one of their dealerships was a victim of an elaborate fraud scheme.  The purchaser posed as the owner of a law firm based out of Louisiana.  The purchaser used fraudulent business documents, tax documents and bank statements to complete the purchase of seven

This Lincoln MKZ was one of twelve vehicles fraudulently obtained from several locations belonging to one dealership in Southern California. The suspect(s) used fraudulent documents to obtain the vehicles and were in the process of title washing the vehicles. The investigation is being conducted by OCATT (Orange County Auto Theft Taskforce). OCATT entered the vehicle

On January 18, 2013, the owners of a car lot contacted the Brea Police Department to report that a 2004 BMW Z-3 vehicle had been stolen, along with 12 other exotic cars, from their dealership’s lot. Apparently organized thieves broke into the car lot office, located the keys, and helped themselves to the 13 vehicles.

On May 1, 2012, detectives from the Orange County Auto Theft Task Force (OCATT) began to receive a silent LoJack signal on the LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC) installed in their patrol vehicle. After querying the LoJack Reply Code appearing on the computer display against the police computer database, they were advised that the signal