LoJack Helps Houston Police Recover Stolen Jaguar XTY, One Suspect Arrested
- March 30, 2013
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On February 22, 2013 the owner of a 2002 Jaguar XTY 4 door contacted the Houston Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen from their place of employment.
Houston Police verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the Jaguar.
A short while later, an officer from the Houston Police Department’s Major Offenders Division picked up the silent LoJack homing signals from the stolen Jaguar on his portable Police Tracking Computer. Following the directional and audible cues from the LoJack computer, the officer tracked the signal to a public street, where the officer observed one suspect sitting in the driver’s seat of the vehicle. The plainclothes officer called for a marked patrol vehicle and the driver was arrested without incidence. The vehicle, valued at approximately $6,500, was recovered.
The LoJack Vehicle Recovery System was installed in the Jaguar on May 8, 2002 at Galpin Jaguar-Lincoln-Mercury in Van Nuys, California at the request of the original owner. The current owner was unaware that the vehicle was equipped with a LoJack system.