Car owner stunned after finding tracker but no car

A car owner got the shock of her life when she tracked down a 2016 Toyota Corolla she had leased to a security guard, only to discover that the tracker had been ripped out and abandoned in Patrick City, St Andrew, while the vehicle was nowhere to be found.

The jaw-dropping discovery came after the renter failed to return the vehicle on the agreed date, prompting the owner to activate the car's GPS system. What she found left her stunned, the tracker discarded and no trace of her car in sight.

Reports from the Portmore police are that between Friday, January 18, and Monday, January 21, 2024, Tashaun Farquharson, 31, a security officer of Sheffield Road, Kingston 2, rented a 2016 Toyota Corolla motor car for three days. The vehicle was not returned on the agreed return date causing the complainant to track the vehicle which led her to Patrick City in Kingston but only found the tracker on arrival. The complainant made a report to the police.

The accused made an attempt to rent a second vehicle from the complainant and allegedly produced a driver's licence with the same picture but with different name. The police was contacted and Farquharson was subsequently arrested and taken into custody. He was subsequently charged with larceny of a motor vehicle, malicious destruction of property and uttering forged documents

His court date is being finalised.