Shortly before 12:00PM on September 20th, 2002, a taxi driver was driving his VectorTrac equipped vehicle in the city of San Fernando when he was carjacked by four armed men. The driver managed to shut off his vehicle before he was tied up and put into the trunk of his taxi. When the gunmen started the vehicle, the VLU was automatically activated due to the failure of the gunmen to properly use the VectorTrac coded key tag. The San Fernando Sector Activation Transceiver (SAT) immediately picked up the VLU’s signal and relayed the alarm to the CarTrac base station. Shortly after the alarm was received at the base station, the San Fernando VLU listening post also detected the VLU and notified the base station operator, greatly narrowing down the initial search area. 

The nearest Mobile Tracker was dispatched to the area and within minutes began to pick up the VLU’s signal. The Mobile Tracker tracked the VLU’s signal to the Marabella area and within minutes, the tracking officer had visual contact with the taxi. As soon as the officer notified the base station that he had visual contact, the base station sent the engine kill command. The taxi’s engine was immediately shut down and the bandits quickly made their escape. As the mobile tracking officer approached the now abandoned taxi, he heard the driver in the trunk. Within 15 minutes of being carjacked, tied up, and locked in his own trunk, the taxi driver was rescued by the CarTrac Mobile Tracking Officer. When questioned by police, the client stated "The quick response by the CarTrac officers prevented any further damage to my vehicle and to me."

StarTrac Base transmitted the VLU activation command and immediately received an RTR triangulation pinpointing stolen Toyota in an area about 10 kilometers away from Water Pump. The mobile response team was immediately dispatched to the location of the stolen car. The team included four StarTrac mobile tracking vehicles and several ACLC vans and Police units. They reached the indicated location within a few minutes and the mobile tracking personnel disabled the stolen Toyota via remote control. Within minutes, the mobile trackers had located the now abandoned stolen Toyota and recovered the vehicle. The vehicle was returned to the joyful owner within 30 minutes of the theft.