LoJack Early Warning System Enables Quick Recovery of Stolen Toyota Tundra, 4 Arrested
- November 26, 2012
- recovery stories
In the early morning hours of November 4, 2012, the owner of a 2008 Toyota Tundra SR5 Crew Max pickup truck, who lives in the 25300 block of 154th Street Court East in Buckley, received an Early Warning Alert call from LoJack. Early Warning is a LoJack feature that calls the owner of the vehicle when it moves without the presence of a LoJack Key Pass. Once the owner confirmed that the truck was in fact stolen, he contacted the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department to report the crime. Pierce County deputies verified the theft and entered the Toyota’s identification number into the state and federal crime computers. That process automatically activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the vehicle.
A short while later, a Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife officer received the silent LoJack homing signal transmitting from the stolen pickup on the Police Tracking Computer installed in his patrol vehicle. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department was notified and responded with two deputies also equipped with LoJack Trackers. Following the directional and audible cues from their LoJack computer, the officers quickly tracked the signal to a residence in the 23000 block of Orville Road near Orting. They observed the front end of the Toyota behind a shed on the property. Four occupants in the house were contacted and interviewed. They admitted to stealing the pickup, as well as a large quantity of power tools on the property that had been taken from residences and businesses recently. All four suspects were arrested.
The LoJack Vehicle Recovery System was installed in this Toyota Tundra in May of 2010 at Toyota of Puyallup when it was purchased as a used vehicle.