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LoJack® System Leads Alameda County Auto Theft Task Force to Camaro Chop Shop in Oakland California

  • July 28, 2014
  • recovery stories
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The owners of a 1998 Chevrolet Camaro discovered that their car was stolen from the driveway of their home in Hayward California.   

The Hayward Police Department verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Camaro.

Later that day, Alameda County Auto Theft detectives picked up the silent signals from the LoJack System installed on the stolen Camaro on the LoJack Police Tracking Computers installed in their vehicles. Following the directional and audible cues from the LoJack computers, the detectives tracked the Camaro to South Oakland and set up surveillance on the vehicle. Detectives followed the Camaro after a suspect got into it and trailed it to a shop in South Oakland.  The ensuing investigation uncovered a 2010 and a 2012 totally stripped Camaro’s inside the shop.  Neither of the newer Camaro’s was    LoJack® System  equipped.  The investigation is fluid with search and arrest warrants anticipated for local suspects in the case,.

The LoJack® System was installed in the 1998 Chevrolet Camaro 5/28/1998, in Ontario, CA.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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