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Lauderhill Police Using LoJack Recover Stolen Ford F-250 Pickup, Abandoned in Parking Lot

  • August 28, 2012
  • recovery stories
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On Monday morning, July 16, 2012, the owners of a 2007 Ford F-250 pickup truck contacted the Miramar Police Department to report the vehicle stolen from their home. Miramar officers verified the theft and had the Ford’s information entered into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the vehicle.

A short while later, a trooper with the Florida Highway Patrol picked up the silent LoJack homing signal from the stolen Ford pickup truck on the LoJack Police Tracking computer (PTC) installed in his patrol car. Following the directional and audible cues on their PTCs, the officer, along with backup, located the vehicle parked and abandoned in a parking lot in the 4600 block of N.W. 10th Place, Lauderhill, Florida.

Lauderhill Police conducted surveillance on the vehicle; after several hours without anyone returning to the vehicle, the officers recovered the vehicle. The Ford was 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 Ford F-250 pickup truck on October 3, 2006 at Tropical Financial Credit Union, Miami, Florida and has been protecting it ever since.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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