A"serious breach" led to a delay in recovering a stolen car with a toddler trapped inside after a Volkswagen car tracking service demanded payment before agreeing to help, a local sheriff's office said.
But the company"would not track the vehicle with the abducted child until they received payment to reactivate the tracking device in the stolen Volkswagen," the sheriff's office said in a statement posted on Facebook. “Volkswagen has a procedure in place with a third-party provider for Car-Net Support Services involving emergency requests from law enforcement. They have executed this process successfully in previous incidents. Unfortunately, in this instance, there was a serious breach of the process. We are addressing the situation with the parties involved,” the statement said.
Authorities found the stolen Volkswagen in a parking lot near Casimir Pulaski Drive and Route 43 in Waukegan, according to the sheriff's office.
Seriously VW ?
VW What a disgrace!!!!!
Abd the greedy get greedier. Shame on vw
Hear some sad stories K Dixie USA
Sounds like VW needs to be barred from doing business in the US.
Otherwise it's a great built Nazi car.
vw what people are you? Can’t imagine someone can do this. Apologize immediately.
It's worse than you think. They only found the child because someone called 911 after seeing 2 cars abandoned and one with a child in it. VW you should be ashamed.
VW VWGroup shame on you
WTF 🤬😡🤦🏽♀️
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🙏 That The Toddler Is Okay
Call them out. Public shame them. Unforgivable. Corporate monsters
Wow. German for ya
Disgusting!
Gotta love unbridled capitalism.
I didn't know that Republicans owned Volkswagen.
The Volkswagen looks a lot like a BMW. Hope the toddler is ok.
Is the toddler ok?
there shld be exception for ongoing crimes committed and child endangerement is involve. who are these heartless people from volkswagen?
Europeans going pure capitalism! In true American style
VW this is how you run your company?
They sound like smart capitalist entrepreneurs to me.
Wow.
Haha a MAGAF_G cop complaining about capitalism
Why doesn’t NBC have reporters embedded with Ukrainian troops?
I've heard of requesting to see a court order first, but this almost sounds like extortion.
It's not free
Is this an American company? Because then this checks out.
That company needs not to be in business anymore!