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LoJack Aids Miami-Dade Police in Recovering Stolen Freightliner Box Truck

  • August 28, 2012
  • recovery stories
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On Friday evening, July 6, 20012, the operator of a 2005 Freightliner box truck contacted the Miami-Dade Police Department to report the vehicle stolen from the warehouse where it was parked in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida. Miami-Dade officers 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 Medley Police Department picked up the silent LoJack homing signal from the stolen Freightliner on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking computer (PTC). Following the directional and audible cues on their PTCs, the officer, along with backup, located the vehicle, in another warehouse area in the 7900 block of N.W. 64th Street in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, just six blocks from where it was stolen. As the vehicle was located outside of Medley Police’s jurisdiction, they had a Miami-Dade officer respond to complete the investigation. Upon opening the rear door, it was discovered that the vehicle was empty. 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 2005 Freightliner box truck on June 16, 2008 and has been protecting it ever since.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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