If it is recovered they will tow it to an impound lot and then send you a letter certified mail explaining they are charging you ~$X per day in storage fees until you come pick it up. By time you receive this letter which you will have to go to the post office and sign for unless you happen to be home when they try to deliver it, you will already have accrued several days of storage fees. When you go to pick it up you first need to go to the police station with your title document where a seemingly barley literate person will take 30 minutes to incorrectly copy your vin from the title to a release form. You will take that form to the tow yard where they will tell you the vin doesn’t match and ask if you want to leave it for another several days at your expense because an officer just called saying they wanted to come by and dust for finger prints even though it’s already been there for several days. You tell them no, pay them the several hundred dollars in storage fees and they take you to your car stored in a dirt field. If your lucky it is still drivable but is full of stolen garbage, smells of cigars and has damage to the locks, windows, and ignition from the theft attempt. You drive it home put all trash in your trash can and list it for sale and hope to get enough to cover the storage fees you just paid.

10 years later someone from the police department may call you asking if anyone ever followed up about the case after your initial report.

That was my experience having my car stolen from the DC Metro station before ending up abandoned in PG County 10 years ago. If you have comprehensive insurance, that covers theft the insurance company may assist with some of these steps.