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District of Columbia Police Use LoJack to Recover Stolen Toyota Sequoia, Abandoned & Undamaged

  • December 5, 2012
  • recovery stories
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On November 16, 2012, the owner of a 2004 Toyota Seqouia contacted the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen from Unit Block South Capitol Street SE in Washington, DC.

District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department officers verified the theft and entered the Toyota’s information into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the vehicle.

Minutes later, officers from the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department picked up the silent Lojack homing signals from the stolen Toyota on the Police Tracking Computers installed in their patrol vehicles. Following the directional and audible cues from the LoJack computers, the officers tracked the vehicle to the 700 block of Mississippi Avenue SE in Washington, DC. There, officers observed the stolen Toyota parked and unoccupied. The undamaged vehicle was recovered by police and returned to the owner.

The LoJack Vehicle Recovery System was installed in the Toyota Corolla in June of 2004 at Russell Toyota in Baltimore, Maryland.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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