Freightliner Box Truck Stolen in Medley Recovered Quickly in North Miami Beach
- August 28, 2012
- recovery stories
On Saturday afternoon, the manager of a seafood company visited her place of employment to make sure the refrigeration units were working properly, when she discovered the gate opened and a 2005 White Freightliner box truck missing. The manager contacted the Medley Police Department to report the vehicle stolen.
Medley Police verified the theft and had the Freightliner’s information entered into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the box truck.
A short while later, an officer with the Miami-Dade Police Department picked up the silent LoJack homing signal from the stolen box truck on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking computer (PTC). Following the directional and audible cues on the PTCs, the officer, along with backup, located the vehicle on I-95 northbound, just north of Miami Gardens Drive in North Miami Beach. The vehicle was recovered, towed to the police impound yard for safekeeping, and removed from federal and state crime computer systems.
The LoJack Vehicle Recovery System was installed in the Freightliner box truck on June 26, 2008 and has been protecting it ever since.