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The LoJack® System Helps NYPD Anti-Crime Unit Recover Stolen Nissan Altima

  • October 30, 2013
  • recovery stories
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Shopping malls are very popular as ‘cooling off’ spots for thieves to park stolen vehicles. Mall lots are usually crowded, which makes a visual search extremely difficult. The LoJack® system undermines this diversionary tactic because the hidden transponder in a car, truck, van or motorcycle sends a silent signal to law enforcement, allowing them to pinpoint the exact machine no matter how many others it’s surrounded by.

On October 1th,, 2013, the owner of a 2010 Nissan Altima contacted the NYPD 60th precinct in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY, to report that her vehicle was stolen from in front of her house, in Coney Island. Officers took a written report and entered the car’s information into the NYPD Stolen Auto Computer and the NCIC national computer. The LoJack unit concealed on the Altima, which was installed at Bay Ridge Nissan in Brooklyn, NY, was then automatically activated.

A short while later, officers from the 61st precinct Anti-Crime Unit picked up the homing signal from the stolen car on the LoJack tracking computers installed in their patrol vehicles. The officers tracked the vehicle to a commercial area in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, and found it parked and abandoned in a shopping mall lot. The Altima was soon returned to its elated owner.

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Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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