PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a woman snatched off the streets of Philadelphia was rescued

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with the help of a GPS tracking device that had been installed on the suspect's vehicle by the used-car dealership that sold it to him.

Law enforcement officials found 22-year-old Carlesha Freeland-Gaither and her alleged abductor in Jessup, Maryland, on Wednesday after investigators read the dealership's name on a traffic-camera image of the car and asked the dealership to turn on the car's GPS and provide the vehicle's location.

Police say the dealership routinely puts GPS devices on its vehicles so they can be easily located and repossessed if the owner falls behind on the payments.

Freeland-Gaither had last been seen on surveillance video being grabbed by a man and pulled toward a car Sunday night as she struggled to get away in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood.

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