LoJack® System Helps The Philadelphia Police Department Recover Chrysler Sebring Stolen In A Robbery
- August 14, 2014
- recovery stories
In the early morning hours, a Philadelphia resident stumbled into a 24-hour convenience store bleeding from a serious head wound and requested assistance. The convenience store clerk called 911 and Philadelphia Police Radio dispatched officers to investigate the situation. The officers quickly arrived on location and interviewed the male who related that he was approached by person(s), hit in the head with an unknown object and his 2005 Chrysler was taken from him. The officers notified Philadelphia Police Northeast Detective Division and a detective was assigned to the robbery. The complainant was transported to a local hospital where he was admitted to the hospital suffering from a head injury. The assigned detective entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Chrysler.
Later on this same morning investigators from the Philadelphia Police Major Crimes Auto Squad were conducting an unrelated investigation in the Northeast section of Philadelphia. The investigators reported to Police Radio that they were intercepting the silent LoJack® homing signals from the stolen Chrysler with the LoJack® Police Tracking Computers (PTC) installed in the undercover Philadelphia Police vehicle. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the investigators tracked the signal to a rear driveway in the area of 2100 East Carver Street where they observed a vehicle matching the description of the stolen vehicle which was backed into a parking space in the rear of a private residence. The Major Crimes Auto Squad investigators took up a surveillance position. Soon after, the parked Chrysler was examined and found to be the vehicle stolen in the robbery earlier in the day. The investigators gathered information relating to the residence where the vehicle was parked and notified Philadelphia Police Tow Squad that the vehicle was being confiscated, towed to Major Crimes Auto Squad HQ and processed for physical evidence.
This incident remains under investigation by the members of the Philadelphia Police Major Crimes Auto Squad and Northeast Detective Division.
The LoJack®System was installed in the 2005 Chrysler in May of 2005.