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Carjack Suspect Taken Into Custody Thanks To GPS

POSTED: 5:52 am PDT August 22, 2007
UPDATED: 6:19 am PDT August 22, 2007

A Vancouver woman has her car back thanks to the vehicle’s global positioning system.

Vancouver police were called to a Fred Meyer grocery store on Grand Boulevard at East Fourth Plain Boulevard around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to investigate a carjacking.

A woman, later identified as 22-year-old Jessica Moran, said a man put a knife to her throat and stole her 2005 Honda Accord. The victim told police that the vehicle was equipped with a GPS through Guidepoint.

The GPS was activated and the vehicle was found parked on Harney Street.

Officers searched the area with a K-9 unit and found a suspect, later identified as 18-year-old Pedro Graciano, at a nearby apartment.

Graciano was taken into custody and transported to the Clark County Jail on robbery charges.

Moran was not injured during the robbery.

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