Boston Police Use LoJack to Recover Stolen Lexus L43, Found Parked and Abandoned
- January 22, 2013
- recovery stories
On the late afternoon of December 3, 2012, the owner of a Lexus L43 contacted the Boston Police Department to report the apparent theft of the vehicle earlier that day from parked outside his residence on Metcalf Street in Jamaica Plain. A responding Boston Police Officer took a report from the victim.
The Boston Police Department verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the Lexus.
A short while later, officers from the Boston Police Department C-11 Station picked up the silent LoJack homing signals from the stolen Lexus on the Police Tracking Computers installed in their patrol vehicles. Following the directional and audible cues from the LoJack computers, the officers quickly tracked and located the parked, unoccupied stolen vehicle at the corner of Howard Avenue and Brookford Street in the Dorchester section of Boston. After a brief investigation, the officers had the stolen vehicle towed from the recovery scene for safekeeping until the Boston PD’s Auto Theft Command could notify the owner.
The LoJack Vehicle Recovery System was installed in the Lexus at the Ira Lexus dealership on September 27, 1990.