New Jersey Police Quickly Recover Lexus RX330 Stolen in Carjacking at a Church in Newark
- August 30, 2012
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On July 16, 2012 the owner of a 2005 Lexus RX 330 contacted the Newark Police Department to report that her vehicle had been stolen. The vehicle owner stated that she was leaving church services, sitting in her running vehicle, talking to fellow parishioner. As she stepped out of the driver’s seat to retrieve something from the back, a thief jumped into the vehicle and stole it.
The Newark Police Department verified the theft and entered the vehicle’s information into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the Lexus.
A short time later, an officer from the New Jersey University of Medicine & Dentistry Police Department picked up the silent LoJack homing signals from the stolen Lexus on the Police Tracking Computers installed in his police vehicle. Following the directional and audible cues from the LoJack computers, the officer tracked the vehicle to an area near the University, in the City of Newark, New Jersey. The vehicle was recovered undamaged.
The LoJack Vehicle Recovery System was installed in the Lexus RX 330 on November 18, 2008, at Linden VW Dodge in Linden, New Jersey.