LoJack® System Helps NYPD’s Auto Crime Division Recover Stolen Saturn Vue

The owners of a 2006 Saturn Vue contacted NYPD’s 20^th precinct to report that their vehicle was stolen while parked near the American Museum of Natural History on W 77^th St. and Columbus Ave. The owner inadvertently left a set of keys inside the vehicle.

NYPD verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers (NYSPIN/ NCIC) which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Saturn.

A short while later detectives from NYPD’s Auto Crime Division picked up the silent LoJack® homing signals from the stolen Saturn with the LoJack® Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft.  Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the detectives tracked and located the vehicle parked on the 100 block of Central Park North in the confines of Manhattan’s 28^th precinct. Surveillance was setup for several hours with negative results.  The owner was eventually contacted and the vehicle with a broken rear passenger rear window was returned to a very happy owner at the recovery location.

The LoJack® System was installed in the Saturn Vue in September 2005.

• American Museum of Natural History
• Central Park North
• Crime
• General Motors
• LoJack Police
• Manhattan
• NCIC
• NYPD
• Police
• PTC
• Saturn Corporation
• Saturn Vue
• theft