She can kiss it goodbye. The police are not interested in recovering stolen cars or prosecuting the thieves.
Friends of mine had their car stolen and it turned up later in a parking lot. IIRC, they got it back because it had been towed for being left too long. At any rate, there was plenty of identifying info left by the thieves (papers which all but named them), but the cops had no interest in pursuing it.
Wow that sounds like a scene straight out of The Big Lebowski.
Prosecuting doesn’t Generate Revenue or Oppress the Masses, unless the perps are loaded with cash and confiscateables.
Daughter has had 2 cars stolen. A Honda right out of our driveway. When the police found it in a lake they came and told us so we could turn it into insurance. That’s it. The other one was a brand new Acura stolen right out of her garage when someone broke in her house and took everything else she owned. The police barely even remembered to write the car on the report. About a week later some homeowner called the police because they noticed it had been sitting in a parking lot by their house for a week. The police told her to go get it and that was that.
All our police do about ANY stolen property is write a report so you can collect from insurance.